TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, have appealed to the Supreme Court to halt a federal law that would ban the app in the United States unless ByteDance agrees to sell it by January 19th.
TikTok asked the Supreme Court to block a federal law that would ban the popular app in the United States unless its parent company agrees to sell it by next month.
Lawyers for ByteDance (TikTok’s parent company) and TikTok told the Supreme Court on Monday that a modest delay in enforcing the Act will create breathing room for this Court to conduct an orderly review and the new Administration to evaluate this matter — before this vital channel for Americans to communicate with their fellow citizens and the world is closed. On Friday, a panel of federal judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied an emergency plea to block the law, a procedural ruling that allowed the case to move to the Supreme Court. Lawyers for the company and China-based ByteDance urged the justices to step in before the law's Jan. 19 deadline. A similar plea was filed by content creators who rely on the platform for income and some of TikTok's more than 170 million users in the U.S. The companies have said that a shutdown lasting just a month would cause TikTok to lose about a third of its daily users in the U.S. and significant advertising revenue. 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 Jan. 19 and expose app stores that offer TikTok and internet hosting services that support it to potential fines. It would be up to the Justice Department to enforce the law, investigating possible violations and seeking sanctions
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