The court is hearing oral arguments on TikTok’s bid to block a law that would lead to its ban in the U.S. starting Jan. 19 if it isn’t sold by its Chinese owner.

By Andrew Chung, John Kruzel and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Supreme Court justices posed tough questions to the lawyer representing TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance on Friday over a law that would force a sale or ban the widely used short-video app by Jan.

A lawyer for TikTok argued before the Supreme Court on Friday that a ban on the social network would violate TikTok's and Americans' First Amendment