The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on the constitutionality of a law to ban the app or force its sale.

The planned ban, which Congress passed in April, gave TikTok nine months to sever its ties with ByteDance, its Chinese parent.

TikTok is asking the Supreme Court to step in on an emergency basis to block the federal law that would ban the popular platform in the United States unless its China-based parent company agrees to se

TikTok says a Jan. 19 deadline for divestment should be paused to give the Supreme Court time to consider its challenge to a federal law mandating the sale.

In a race against time, TikTok's fate in the United States hangs in the balance as the Supreme Court prepares to hear a high-stakes case just days before the app could vanish from app stores nationwide.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments next month over the constitutionality of the federal law that could ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese parent company doesn’t sell it