Lawyers for the company and China-based ByteDance urged the justices to step in before the law’s January 19 deadline.
TikTok on Monday asked the US Supreme Court to step in on an emergency basis to block the federal law that would ban the popular platform in the United States unless its China-based parent company agreed to sell it.
President-elect Donald Trump, who once supported a ban but then pledged during the campaign to “save TikTok”. said his administration would look at the situation. The case could attract the court’s interest because it pits free speech rights against the government’s stated aims of protecting national security, while raising novel issues about social media platforms.The request first goes to Chief Justice John Roberts, who oversees emergency appeals from courts in the nation’s capital. He almost certainly will seek input from all nine justices.
Without a court-ordered freeze, the law would take effect on January 19 and expose app stores that offer TikTok, and internet hosting services that support it, to potential fines. On the other hand, the justices could reject the emergency appeal, which would allow the law to take effect as scheduled.
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