TikTok gets frosty reception at Supreme Court in fight to stave off ban

TikTok received a frosty reception in its fight to save the platform at the Supreme Court, which during oral arguments Friday expressed sympathy with the government’s national security concerns about the platform’s ties to China. 

The divest-or-ban law, which passed Congress with wide bipartisan majorities and was signed by President Biden in April, requires TikTok to face a ban in the U.S. beginning Jan. 19 unless it divests from its Chinese-based parent company, ByteDance. The Supreme Court could still step in before then.