The U.S. Supreme Court may issue a ruling in the case TikTok, Inc. v. Garland on Friday, the nation’s highest court signaled through a message on its website.
On its website, the Supreme Court said opinions “may” be announced on Friday beginning at 10 a.m. on the court’s website – not read from justices on the bench.
“The Court may announce opinions on the homepage beginning at 10 a.m. The Court will not take the Bench,” the court’s website says.
In April 2024, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which requires that TikTok be divested from its parent company, ByteDance, by this Sunday, January 19, or cease operations in the U.S.
In TikTok, Inc. v. Garland, the plaintiffs in the case – the Liberty Justice Center filed on behalf of the nonprofit BASED Politics, a group of TikTok creators, and TikTok and its parent company ByteDance – are asking the Supreme Court to prevent the current law requiring TikTok to divest from its parent company by Sunday from taking effect.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case on an expedited basis on Friday, January 10.
When it comes to a ruling in the case, the Supreme Court may issue an expedited full decision or simply grant the petitioners’ stay to block the law from taking effect, Jacob Huebert, president of the Liberty Justice Center, recently told The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy.
“[The Supreme Court’s ruling] might be a straight up or down – this thing is constitutional or unconstitutional – or it could be a preliminary ruling that stays the effective date as we originally requested,” Huebert said on The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
