TikTok asks the Supreme Court to postpone the upcoming ban

After a federal court last week to reject After TikTok asked to postpone a law that could ban the app in the United States, the company is now turning to the Supreme Court in an attempt to buy time. The social media company said in a brief statement that it had asked the court to temporarily halt the law, which is scheduled to take effect on January 19, 2025.

“The Supreme Court has a solid record of upholding Americans’ right to free speech,” TikTok wrote in a post. On X. “Today, we are asking the Court to do what it has traditionally done in free speech cases: apply the strictest scrutiny to the ban on speech and conclude that it violates the First Amendment.”

The company, which argued that the law was unconstitutional, lost its initial name Legal challenge to the law earlier this month. Then I asked the company delay From law enforcement, saying President-elect Donal Trump said he would “save” TikTok. This request was rejected on Friday.

In it Deposit With the Supreme Court, TikTok once again pointed to Trump’s comments. “It would not be in anyone’s interest — not the parties, the public, or the courts — for the law’s ban on TikTok to go into effect only for the new administration to halt its implementation hours, days, or even weeks later.” books. Trump’s inauguration comes one day after the app ban went into effect.

TikTok is now hoping that the Supreme Court will step in to suspend the law in order to give the company time to file its final legal appeal. Otherwise, app stores and ISPs will be forced to start blocking TikTok next month, making the app inaccessible to its 170 million American users.

Updated December 16, 2024 at 1:30 PM PT: Updated with details from TikTok’s court filing.