In a concurring opinion, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote, "Whether this law will succeed in achieving its ends, I do not know."
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch expressed concerns about not having enough time to decide on the US TikTok ban.
TikTok contested the ban in court, arguing that it violates the free speech rights of both users and the company — an appeal that it took all the way to the Supreme Court, which heard the case on Jan. 10.
The Supreme Court on Friday was divided over the constitutionality of a federal law that would require social-media giant TikTok to shut down in the United States unless its Chinese parent company can sell it by Jan.
The high court was highly skeptical that the difference between false and misleading would overturn a Chicago man’s conviction, but some of the justices seemed open to allowing the opportunity.
A majority of the Supreme Court appeared likely to uphold a controversial ban on TikTok over concerns about its ties to China, with justices lobbing pointed questions at lawyers for the social media app and a group of its content creators.
With just days left in office, President Biden has said the Equal Rights Amendment is now the law of the land.
Most Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical that free speech online is “imperiled” by a Texas law requiring porn websites to verify ages.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it's sold by its China-based parent company, holding that the risk to national security posed by its ties to China overcomes concerns about limiting speech by the app or its 170 million users in the United States.
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on Friday expressed concerns the divest-or-ban law targeting TikTok might not “achieve its goals.” Gorsuch warned that foreign adversaries could
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Justice Neil Gorsuch voted to uphold the ban, along with the rest of the Supreme Court—but expressed reservations about how much it could really achieve.