What Are The Arguments For Banning Tiktok? The federal government emphasized in its brief to the Supreme Court the “grave national security threats” it believes keeping TikTok

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 TikTok to shut down in the United States unless its parent company can sell off the U.

President-elect Donald Trump has urged the Supreme Court to halt the Jan. 19 TikTok ban if parent company ByteDance fails to sell the platform.

The president-elect backed TikTok in a Truth Social post Friday as he tries to halt the law from taking effect.

TikTok’s future in the United States now sits squarely in the hands of the Supreme Court, which will hear oral arguments Friday. At its core, the case features a head-on collision between national security and the First Amendment.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments this week in a case challenging a law that seeks to ban the popular app TikTok in the United States if it is not sold by its owner, Byte Dance, which is based in China.

The last-minute Supreme Court review of the TikTok ban law is underway, and confidential documents are officially being transferred to the nation’s highest court. That documents transfer has arrived just days before the Supreme Court will hear a decidedly important oral argument in connection with the TikTok ban challenge.