TikTok’s future in the United States now sits squarely in the hands of the Supreme Court, which will hear oral arguments Friday. At its core, the case features a head-on collision between national security and the First Amendment.

President-elect Donald Trump has urged the Supreme Court to halt the Jan. 19 TikTok ban if parent company ByteDance fails to sell the platform.

What Are The Arguments For Banning Tiktok? The federal government emphasized in its brief to the Supreme Court the “grave national security threats” it believes keeping TikTok

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments this week in a case challenging a law that seeks to ban the popular app TikTok in the United States if it is not sold by its owner, Byte Dance, which is based in China.