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TikTok asks for emergency pause to looming US ban

The company said in a Monday filing that even a temporary US ban would have "devastating effects".

The company reiterated its response to Friday's ruling, saying it believes the country's highest legal authority, the Supreme Court, will review it and uphold its argument. According to the wording of the law, given President Joe Biden's stamp of approval as part of a broader foreign aid package in April, TikTok would stop being made available to US citizens unless sold by its parent company ByteDance within nine months. In Monday's request for an emergency injunction, TikTok's lawyers argued the law would "inflict extreme and irreparable harm" on the company - adding it would do so "on the eve of a presidential inauguration".

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