TikTok Seeks to Pause US Ban Pending Supreme Court Review (2)

TikTok asked that a US law forcing a sale or ban of the app by China-based parent company ByteDance Ltd. be put on hold to give the US Supreme Court a chance to review.

A pause to the law will also give the incoming administration under President-elect Donald Trump time to determine its position, which could “moot both the impending harms and the need for Supreme Court review,” according to a filing on Monday to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.

A pause will pose “no imminent threat to national security” or “material harm on the government,” ...