On January 10, the Supreme Court will hear arguments regarding the TikTok Ban
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The Supreme Court will hear two hours of oral arguments on Jan. 10 in TikTok’s appeal to block enforcement of a federal law that would require Tik (Focal Foto via Flickr).
The Supreme Court is set to hear two hours of oral argument on Jan. 10, in TikTok’s appeal to block enforcement. The law would force TikTo The law will remain in effect while the justices review TikTok’s request and a separate request from TikTok users. The companies argued in their 41-page filing that if the justices did not intervene, the law would “shut down one of America’s most popular speech platforms the day before a presidential inauguration.” Unless the justices stepped in, the companies contended in their 41-page filing, the law will “shutter one of America’s most popular speech platforms the day before a presidential inauguration.”
TikTok, which has roughly 170 million users in the United States and more than a billion worldwide, ByteDance, and the TikTok users had first filed challenges to the law in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
But that court rejected TikTok’s argument that the law violates the Constitution, explaining that the law was the “culmination of extensive, bipartisan action by the Congress and by successive presidents.” The law, Senior Judge Douglas Ginsburg stressed, was “carefully crafted to deal only with control by a foreign adversary, and it was part of a broader effort to counter a well-substantiated national security threat posed by the People’s Republic of China.”
And after the D.C. TikTok, its users and Noel Francisco, the former U.S. solicitor general during the first Trump administration, asked the Supreme Court for an immediate intervention after the D.C. Circuit denied a request to Represented by Noel Francisco, who served as the U.S. solicitor general during the first Trump administration, TikTok noted that because President-elect Donald Trump and his aides “have voiced support for saving TikTok,” a “modest delay in enforcing” the law will give both the justices time to review the issues presented by the case and the new administration an opportunity to weigh in–“before this vital channel for Americans to communicate with their fellow citizens and the world is closed.”
Citing the need to “coordinate with their service providers to perform the complex task of shutting down the TikTok platform only in the United States” if the Supreme Court declines to intervene, TikTok asked the justices to act on its request by Jan. 6. The company suggested that the Supreme Court could take up the case immediately and treat the request as a petition. Both sides will submit an opening brief before 5 p.m. Dec. 27 and reply briefs by the same time on Jan. 3. This is a relatively unusual move that likely reflects the time-sensitive nature of the
