The issue of banning TikTok will be heard by the Supreme Court

the supreme court On Wednesday, he agreed to hear arguments Tik Tok That law could lead to a popular ban Social media application Violates the freedom of expression protection in the US Constitution.

The Supreme Court scheduled oral arguments in the case for Jan. 10, nine days before the law, officially known as the Controlled Foreign Applications Act, takes effect.

The law requires TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell or enforce the app Google, appleAnd other platforms to stop supporting the app in the United States.

Congress passed the law over concerns that TikTok’s Chinese ownership poses a national security risk.

TikTok said that if the app was banned, small US businesses that use TikTok for marketing would lose more than $1 billion in revenue in the month following the ban, and that people who create videos using the app would make nearly $300 million in revenue.

The Supreme Court’s announcement that it would receive TikTok’s appeal came two days after the company filed a petition seeking an injunction against the law that will take effect next month.

In its order, the court ordered the company and the Department of Justice to brief and discuss the issue of whether the law applied to TikTok “violates the First Amendment.”

“Congress’s unprecedented attempt to discriminate and prevent Applicants from operating one of this nation’s most important platforms for expression presents serious constitutional problems that this Court will likely not allow to stand,” TikTok said in its filing with the court.

TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday from CNBC.

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the law on December 6, ruling that the Justice Department “presented compelling evidence demonstrating that the Divestment Act is narrowly designed to protect national security.”

President-elect Donald Trump He met with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday, the same day the company asked the Supreme Court to take up its case.

“We’re going to take a look at TikTok,” Trump told reporters earlier that day, when asked about a potential ban.

“You know, I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok,” Trump said, noting that the app boosted support for him from young voters during the election in November.

Jeff Yass, a major Trump backer, is co-founder and managing director of Susquehanna International Group, a major investor in ByteDance.

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