TikTok ban case will be heard by Supreme Court [Video]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear arguments that a law that would effectively ban TikTok if its parent company does not sell the popular social media app violates the U.S. Constitution’s free speech protections.

The Supreme Court scheduled oral arguments in the case for Jan. 10. That is nine days before the law targeting the app used by an estimated 170 million Americans is set to take effect.

The law would require TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell the app or force Google, Apple, and other platforms to stop supporting the app in the United States.

Congress passed the law, the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, due to concerns that TikTok’s Chinese ownership presented a national security risk.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the law on Dec. 6, ruling that the DOJ had “offered persuasive evidence demonstrating that” the divestment law “is …