TikTok Asks Supreme Court to Halt Divestment Law

Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected a similar request.

The TikTok logo is displayed on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying a TikTok home page, in Boston, Mass., on March 18, 2023. Michael Dwyer/AP Photo

Social media platform TikTok is asking the Supreme Court to temporarily block a law requiring its parent company, ByteDance, to divest the platform by Jan. 19, 2025, or cease operations in the United States.

The Dec. 16 filing came after the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected TikTok’s attempt to halt the law pending review by the Supreme Court.