The president-elect backed TikTok in a Truth Social post Friday as he tries to halt the law from taking effect.

The Supreme Court should follow Trump’s request to let him take office and work out a deal. Better, it should just reject H.R. 7521 entirely as an affront to free people.

The US Supreme Court will take up TikTok's challenge of a law that if allowed to go into effect could lead to a US ban of the popular social media platform. The nation's highest court said in mid-December that it will hear oral arguments in the case on Jan.

The president-elect took no position on the app’s First Amendment challenge to the law, which sets a Jan. 19 deadline to sell or close the popular platform.

President-elect Donald Trump requested that the Supreme Court suspend the TikTok ban until after he takes office while he works on a political resolution. University of Minnesota Law School associate professor Alan Rozenshtein breaks down the legal basis for the request.

President-elect Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until his administration can pursue a “political resolution” to the issue

Trump met TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew in December after declaring he had “a warm spot” for the platform. His position is a far cry from his previous stint as President, when he tried to ban TikTok and backed a deal that would have seen its American operations sold to Oracle and Walmart. This proposal was eventually canned.

President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to let him negotiate a deal to save TikTok from an imminent US ban.

Attorneys representing President-elect Donald Trump have asked the Supreme Court to pause a law that would force TikTok-owner ByteDance to sell the

Cornell Law Professor Gautam Hans says he skeptical that the Supreme Court will overturn the lower court TikTok ruling. He joins Tim Stenovec and Katie Greifeld on "Bloomberg Technology" to discuss. (