Supreme Court Considers TikTok Ban: What to Know

On Jan. 10, the court will consider TikTok’s emergency request to pause a law requiring it to sever Chinese ties or be banned from the United States.

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Legal experts differ about how they think the Supreme Court will rule on a federal law requiring Chinese tech company ByteDance to sell TikTok by Jan. 19 or be shut down in the United States.

The court heard arguments on TikTok Inc. v. Garland and its companion case, Firebaugh v. Garland, together on Jan. 10 in a dramatic legal showdown nine days before the “divest-or-ban” law takes effect.