TikTok’s last-ditch bid to get its impending ban in the US overturned will be heard by the Supreme Court.
TikTok, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, on Monday turned to the Supreme Court to block a law which will see the video-sharing app banned for millions in January.
A request for an emergency injunction against the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act was not acted on.
However, justices will allow TikTok to put forward its case on January 10, before the ban is due to come into force on January 19.
TikTok had argued the ban, which will be enforced one day before Donald Trump takes office for his second term as president, would see it barred at a key political moment.
“The act will shutter one of America’s most popular speech platforms the day before a presidential inauguration,” a court filing earlier in the week said.
ByteDance has been required to sell the platform or see it banned under the act after the US Justice Department has cited national security concerns over the app.
TikTok had unsuccessfully attempted to get the law delayed through a request to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last week.
Trump, despite previously supporting it, has publicly opposed the ban, telling reporters on Monday that he had a “warm spot” for the app, which has 170 million users in the country.