A federal court docket has denied TikTok’s request for a short lived pause of a legislation that would end in a ban of the app subsequent month. The ruling, which got here in response to an emergency injunction filed by TikTok earlier this week, is the most recent authorized setback for the corporate because it tries to keep away from a complete ban of its app in the US.
In its request for a delay within the legislation taking impact, TikTok indicated that it deliberate to attraction to the Supreme Court docket. The corporate’s attorneys additionally cited the chance that President-elect Donald Trump might need to take a special method given a few of Trump’s previous feedback concerning the app. However in a short order, a panel of three judges denied that request, writing that such a pause was “unwarranted.”
TikTok’s future now will depend on the Supreme Court docket, although there’s no assure the court docket will agree to listen to the case. “As now we have beforehand acknowledged, we plan on taking this case to the Supreme Court docket, which has a longtime historic file of defending People’ proper to free speech,” the corporate mentioned in an announcement. “The voices of over 170 million People right here within the US and around the globe shall be silenced on January nineteenth, 2025 except the TikTok ban is halted.”