In a concurring opinion, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote, "Whether this law will succeed in achieving its ends, I do not know."

US Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch called on Congress or the judiciary’s committee responsible for drafting rules for federal courts to address the government’s use of classified evidence that’s shielded from litigants.

The Supreme Court seemed to lean Thursday toward upholding a law forcing Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell off TikTok, with all nine justices indicating national security concerns posed by the social media app outweighed potential threats to free speech.

The Supreme Court seems skeptical of the Chinese-owned platform’s First Amendment claim.

A determined foreign adversary may just seek to replace one lost surveillance application with another,” Gorsuch wrote in a concurrence with the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to uphold the TikTok ban.

The Supreme Court upheld a US law that bans TikTok on Jan. 19 unless it is sold to an owner not controlled by a foreign adversary, a ruling that creates new uncertainty for a social-media app used by 170 million Americans.

The Supreme Court appeared to favor the government's national security claims over TikTok's 1st Amendment argument.

The Supreme Court upheld legislation on Friday mandating China-based ByteDance to divest its ownership of TikTok by Sunday, or face an effective ban of the popular social media app in the United States. ByteDance has so far refused to sell TikTok, potentially leading to many American users losing access to the app this weekend, reported CNBC.

The US Supreme Court has upheld the law mandating China-based ByteDance to divest its ownership of TikTok by Sunday, or face an effective ban.

The justices found the government’s concerns over potential privacy abuses at TikTok persuasive, especially if users oblige the TikTok app’s requests for contacts and calendar data.

TikTok says it will have to “go dark” this weekend unless the outgoing Biden administration assures the company it won’t enforce a shutdown of the popular app after the Supreme Court unanimously uphel