The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear arguments by TikTok seeking to block a law that could lead to a ban of the popular social media app pending the company’s appeal of a lower-court ruling upholding the law.
The Supreme Court scheduled oral arguments in the case for Jan. 10, nine days before the law is set to take effect.
The high court’s order came two days after TikTok filed its petition seeking an injunction against the law.
The law would require TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app by Jan. 19 or force Google, Apple and other platforms to stop supporting the app in the United States.
Congress passed the law, the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, over concerns that TikTok’s Chinese ownership presented a national security risk.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the law on Dec. 6, ruling that the Department of Justice had “offered persuasive evidence demonstrating that” the divestment law “is narrowly tailored to protect national security.”
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