Washington TikTok’s appeal against a government law that might ban the well-known social media app by next month will be heard by the Supreme Court, the court announced Wednesday.
The court took action a day after TikTok submitted its appeal, and it will decide whether to halt the law after hearing oral arguments on January 10.
The matter at hand is a bipartisan bill that was approved by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden. It would take effect on January 19, the day before Donald Trump, the next president, takes office.
The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act would force ByteDance, the Chinese corporation that owns TikTok, to sell the platform to an American business or risk being banned.
TikTok has contested the regulation, claiming it infringes upon its First Amendment right to free speech.
The court did not temporarily prohibit the statute in the order indicating it would take up the case.
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