Social media giant TikTok asked the Supreme Court on Monday to intervene in the challenge to a law mandating the company divest its American subsidiary or face a ban in the U.S., calling the law unconstitutional.
The application from the social media company and several of its users asked the justices to freeze a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit earlier this month that would force the sale or ban of the company by Jan. 19. The company, majority owned by China-based Bytedance Ltd., argued that the freeze would give the justices enough time to weigh — and eventually overturn — the law.
TikTok’s application argued that Congress’s justifications to uphold the divestiture did not pass constitutional muster. The company said that divesting its American subsidiary was not possible and Congress had effectively banned it from the U.S.
