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A unanimous Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that effectively bans the wildly popular app TikTok in the United States starting on Sunday, Jan. 19. Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The New York Times, explains how free speech and national security collided in this decision.
Grief, frustration and tears followed the Supreme Court’s decision on Friday.
A change to China’s export rules could give Beijing sign off on any deal that would force the internet giant ByteDance to give up TikTok.
The company argued that the law, citing potential Chinese threats to the nation’s security, violated its First Amendment rights and those of its 170 million users.
Shou Chew will join tech moguls like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk at President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inauguration as the fate of the app hangs in the balance.
The Justice Department now enters a second Trump administration with less authority to pursue a president than it has had in half a century.
In trying to find the line between false statements and misleading ones in the case of a Chicago politician, members of the Supreme Court posed colorful questions.
Lower courts ruled that a task force that determines which treatments must be covered at no cost had not been validly appointed.
The justices, who asked tough questions of both sides, showed skepticism toward arguments by lawyers for TikTok and its users.
Selling the app could be difficult, given its scale and nine-figure price.