Tiktok Is Hoping For A 'stay Of Execution' As The Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Bytedance Ban Case — Here's What We Know

Earlier this week, TikTok and its genitor company, China-based ByteDance, asked nan U.S. Supreme Court to region nan Jan. 19 deadline imposed by U.S. lawmakers successful April that forces ByteDance to discarded TikTok aliases look a ban.

TikTok's CEO Shou Zi Chew was moreover seen astatine Mar-a-Lago successful Palm Beach, Florida, making his suit to President-elect Donald Trump later that day.

On Wednesday, nan Supreme Court said it would perceive nan case, scheduling oral arguments for Jan. 10.

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TikTok had requested that nan tribunal comprehend nan suit by Jan. 6 to springiness nan institution clip to "coordinate pinch their activity providers to execute nan analyzable task of shutting down nan TikTok level only successful nan United States" should nan prohibition spell through.

TikTok is arguing that a prohibition "violates nan First Amendment."

Earlier this week, erstwhile asked astir nan looming deadline, Trump said: "We'll return a look astatine TikTok."

"You know, I personification a lukewarm spot successful my bosom for TikTok," Trump added.

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The app is utilized by astir 170 cardinal Americans, according to ByteDance.

In a tribunal filing earlier successful December, TikTok said that creators and mini businesses successful nan U.S. could suffer $1.3 cardinal successful gross and nett successful conscionable 1 play should nan prohibition spell through. (TikTok collapsed it down arsenic astir $1 cardinal successful business trading and nett of $300 cardinal for group who create videos pinch nan app.)

TikTok has too been embraced successful celebrated culture, pinch CEO Chew serving arsenic an honorary chair of nan Met Gala astatine New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Still, immoderate group successful Trump's incoming administration, including Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio, personification been nan ban's astir vocal supporters.

"TikTok extended nan Chinese Communist Party's powerfulness and powerfulness into our ain nation, correct nether our noses," Rubio said successful a spot merchandise connected his website successful April.

In a filing Wednesday, Michael Fragoso, a lawyer for Republican Caucus Leader Senator Mitch McConnell, wrote, "This is simply a modular litigation play astatine nan extremity of 1 administration, pinch a petitioner hoping that nan adjacent guidance will proviso a enactment of execution."