White House officials have been wary over TikTok for its Beijing ownership. According to the Trump administration officials, U.S. user data is at risk of being accessed by Chinese authorities because of the close ties the authoritarian regime has with private business in the country, hence deciding to ban the app, but a federal judge on Monday fully blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to ban TikTok in the U.S.

According to U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington, Trump overstepped his authority in using his emergency economic powers to try to effectively put the wildly popular app out of business. He was the second judge to rule against the president’s ban, after U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone halted the ban on the same grounds in October this year. “The Government’s own descriptions of the national security threat posed by the TikTok app are phrased in the hypothetical,” Beetlestone wrote, “The executive order for having gone beyond the bounds of what the president has the power to do under his emergency economic powers.”

Lawyers for TikTok demonstrated that Trump officials’ “failure to adequately consider an obvious and reasonable alternative before banning TikTok” renders the crackdown against the app “arbitrary and capricious,” wrote Nichols, who is a Trump appointee. The ban has therefore been lifted, until further notice.