U.S. Justice Department Urges Supreme Court to Deny Trump’s Request to Halt TikTok Ban.
In recent days, many people have been closely following the developments of TT, and the discussions about TikTok Loses Lawsuit, So is TikTok Really ‘Banned if Not Sold’? are becoming more prominent as January 19th approaches.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to deliberate on the TikTok case on January 10th of this year. The Justice Department has argued that TikTok has not demonstrated that it could prevail in the case, lacked a legitimate basis for a stay of the law, and Donald Trump has not provided any arguments that TikTok might succeed in the case.
In the latest court filings submitted by TikTok, the company has urged the Supreme Court to either declare the law’s provisions targeting TikTok as unconstitutional or, at the very least, suspend the law temporarily to “carefully consider this significant issue.” TikTok also highlighted the threat to freedom of speech posed by the U.S. government’s arguments. “The Department of Justice has made a startling proposition that a law seeking to shut down a speech platform with 170 million American users should not be subject to judicial review, suggesting that Congress could explicitly prohibit the operation of TikTok merely because it refuses to censor views disfavored by or promote those favored by Congress,” wrote the lawyers of TikTok.

Last week, Trump intervened in the TikTok case, requesting the Supreme Court provide him an unusual window for negotiation to resolve the issue politically.
Trump has not specified what kind of deal he seeks to achieve, nor has he clearly stated how long he believes the implementation of the law should be postponed.