Trump asks Supreme Court to block TikTok ban as he considers ‘political resolution’
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The nation’s highest court will hear arguments over challenges to an imminent ban on January 10. Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to block a federal law’s imminent ban on TikTok in the United States if the popular app’s Chinese parent company doesn’t sell it by next month’s deadline.
The nation’s highest court will hear arguments in the case on January 10. A federal appeals court turned down TikTok’s challenge of a quickly approaching forced sale or nationwide ban, teeing up a Supreme Court challenge. TikTok argued that the ban infringes on its users’ First Amendment protections, but a three-judge appellate panel agreed this month that the government “offered persuasive evidence” that a law passed by Congress to potentially ban the app is “narrowly tailored to protect national security.”.
President Joe Biden signed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act into law earlier this year after bipartisan passage in Congress, which set a deadline of January 19 — one day before Trump’s inauguration — for ByteDance to divest from the platform to an American company, or face a ban.
On the campaign trail, Trump appeared to change his tune around the app, which he had previously supported banning, following a . He had issued an executive order banning the platform in 2020 during his first stint in office but the company successfully challenged the order in court.
