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 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 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.

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.

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. (

It’s up to the Supreme Court whether the U.S. will join China, Afghanistan and other authoritarian countries that have barred their citizens from using the popular social media app.

Lemon8 surged to No. 1 on the Apple app store charts as some users consider it to be a possible TikTok alternative, but the ByteDance-developed platform could be banned by the same law that threatens to ban TikTok.