In what might become a building block for a last-minute reprieve, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to take up a case, after ByteDance, the Chinese Communist Party-affiliated owner of social media platform TikTok, asked the high court to make an emergency review of the upcoming law that would ban its website.
As our colleague at sister site Townhall.com, Jeff Charles, wrote earlier:
The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it will hear a challenge to a new law that would lead to the banning of video sharing site TikTok.
In the announcement, the Court said it would allocate two hours for oral argument on Friday, January 10, 2025. The ban is set to take effect on January 19, 2025.
TikTok has been seeking out other avenues to stop the implementation of the law and has been unsuccessful up until now.
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