Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch expressed concerns Friday that the divest-or-ban law targeting TikTok might not “achieve its goals.” Gorsuch warned that foreign adversaries could ultimately turn to another application for surveillance of U.
US Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch called on Congress or the judiciary’s committee responsible for drafting rules for federal courts to address the government’s use of classified evidence that’s shielded from litigants.
TikTok is reportedly prepared to shut down its app on Sunday, when the ban is scheduled to take effect, though the actual language of the law technically only mandates that the social media platform be taken off of app stores to prevent new users from downloading it.
The Supreme Court upheld a US law that bans TikTok on Jan. 19 unless it is sold to an owner not controlled by a foreign adversary, a ruling that creates new uncertainty for a social-media app used by 170 million Americans.
The Supreme Court seems skeptical of the Chinese-owned platform’s First Amendment claim.
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that a law requiring TikTok’s parent company to divest from the popular video-sharing platform or face a ban was constitutional, siding with the government in a
Even the motivations behind Barrett's rushed nomination were called into question, painting her as the vessel through which Republicans would finally be able to overturn the Affordable Care Act due to a case arriving at the court about the same time as she did in October 2020.
President-elect Donald Trump told ABC News in an interview Saturday he is likely to grant TikTok a 90-day extension to avoid a ban in the United States.
TikTok said it will have to “go dark” this weekend unless the outgoing Biden administration assures the company it won’t enforce a shutdown of the popular app after the Supreme
TikTok contested the ban in court, arguing that it violates the free speech rights of both users and the company — an appeal that it took all the way to the Supreme Court, which heard the case on Jan. 10.
Justice Neil Gorsuch detailed his reasoning in his Supreme Court opinion for voting to uphold the TikTok ban in the U.S. This comes days before President-elect Donald Trump takes the White House for his second term.