TikTok asked a federal court Monday to pause its ruling upholding the federal government’s law that could ban the app in the coming weeks, as the company wants the law to remain on pause while it asks the Supreme Court to take up the case.
The TikTok logo is displayed outside TikTok offices on March 12 in Culver City, California.
TikTok asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to impose an injunction that would pause its ruling on Friday, which upheld the law requiring TikTok to divest from Chinese parent company ByteDance or else be banned from U.S. app stores.
The company asked for the ruling to be paused—meaning the law won’t take effect—while it asks the Supreme Court to take up the case, arguing the high court should “have an opportunity ... to decide whether to review this exceptionally important case” before the law takes effect.
It also said the pause would give the incoming Trump administration time to weigh in on the legal dispute, arguing President-elect Donald Trump’s position “could moot both the impending harms and the need for Supreme Court review”—even as legal experts have suggested there isn’t a foolproof way for Trump to block the ban.
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