The briefs, filed a week before oral arguments, offered sharply differing accounts of China’s influence over the site and the role of the First Amendment.

The president-elect backed TikTok in a Truth Social post Friday as he tries to halt the law from taking effect.

The U.S. Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court late on Friday to reject President-elect Donald Trump's request to delay implementation of a law that would ban popular social media app TikTok or force its sale by Jan.

The Biden administration suggested that the Supreme Court should reject President-elect Donald Trump’s request to delay a law that would ban TikTok in the United States.

The Supreme Court should follow Trump’s request to let him take office and work out a deal. Better, it should just reject H.R. 7521 entirely as an affront to free people.

The U.S. Department of Justice requests the Supreme Court reject Trump’s delay of a law banning TikTok or enforcing its sale by Jan. 19. The law requires ByteDance to divest TikTok's U.S. assets due to security concerns.

TikTok ban looms; creators and legal experts weigh in ahead of Supreme Court hearing

Cornell Law Professor Gautam Hans says he skeptical that the Supreme Court will overturn the lower court TikTok ruling. He joins Tim Stenovec and Katie Greifeld on "Bloomberg Technology" to discuss. (

It’s up to the Supreme Court whether the U.S. will join China, Afghanistan and other authoritarian countries that have barred their citizens from using the popular social media app.