Supreme Court will take up TikTok’s bid to avoid US ban
PoliticoInstead, the justices decided to receive full legal briefing through the holidays on the First Amendment issues at stake and to hear the case before Trump’s inauguration. “We’re pleased with today’s Supreme Court order,” TikTok spokesperson Michael Hughes said. “We believe the Court will find the TikTok ban unconstitutional so the over 170 million Americans on our platform can continue to exercise their free speech rights.” The Justice Department declined to comment. The administration and Congress warned that Beijing could demand U.S. user data from ByteDance under Chinese national security law - or use the app’s algorithms to push propaganda. A lower court upheld the law as constitutional earlier this month, siding with lawmakers and the Justice Department that had said the app poses a national security threat.