TikTok asks federal appeals court to bar enforcement of potential ban until Supreme Court review

TikTok requested a federal appeals court docket on Monday to bar the Biden administration from imposing a regulation that could lead to a ban on the favored platform till the Supreme Court docket critiques its problem to the statue.

The authorized submitting was made after a panel of three judges on the identical court docket sided with the government last week and dominated that the regulation, which requires TikTok to divest from its China-based mother or father firm or face a ban as quickly as subsequent month, was constitutional.

If the regulation shouldn’t be overturned, each TikTok and its mother or father ByteDance, which can also be a plaintiff within the case, have claimed that the favored app will shut down by Jan. 19, 2025. TikTok has greater than 170 million American customers.

“Earlier than that occurs, the Supreme Court docket ought to have a possibility, as the one court docket with appellate jurisdiction over this motion, to determine whether or not to evaluate this exceptionally vital case,” attorneys for the 2 firms wrote within the authorized submitting on Monday.

It is not clear if the Supreme Court docket will take up the case.

President-elect Donald Trump, who tried to ban TikTok the final time he was within the White Home, has mentioned he’s now against such action.

Of their authorized submitting, the 2 firms pointed to the political realities, saying that an injunction would supply a “modest delay” that might give “the incoming Administration time to find out its place — which might moot each the approaching harms and the necessity for Supreme Court docket evaluate.”