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Deadline Hollywood reports:

TikTok is asking the Supreme Court to put a pause on a law that requires that its Chinese-parent company sell its U.S. operations or face a ban on tech platforms.

Courts have so far rejected TikTok’s claim that the law, which passed Congress overwhelmingly last year, is in violation of the First Amendment. Its parent, ByteDance, has until Jan. 19 to divest TikTok in the U.S. or face a ban on app stores.

In its emergency application to the Supreme Court, TikTok says that the law “will shutter one of America’s most popular speech platforms the day before a presidential inauguration. This, in turn, will silence the speech of Applicants and the many Americans who use the platform to communicate about politics, commerce, arts, and other matters of public concern.”

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JUST IN: TikTok asks the Supreme Court to stay a law that would require the app to split from its Chinese parent company or face a national ban. The D.C. Circuit refused to grant a similar emergency request Friday. #SCOTUS pic.twitter.com/3v6E121urs

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