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.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Friday challenging a law that seeks to ban TikTok in the U.S. on Jan. 19.

The Supreme Court will hear two hours of oral arguments on Jan. 10 in TikTok’s appeal to block enforcement of a federal law that would require TikTok to shut down in the United States unless its parent company can sell off the U.

TikTok‘s general manager of agency business for its U.S. arm left the social media platform. This comes as a pending law would pressure China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok for the social media platform to be hosted by app stores in the United States.

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