TikTok requested a federal appeals courtroom on Monday to bar the Biden administration from imposing a regulation that would result in a ban on the favored platform till the Supreme Court docket evaluations its problem to the statue.

The authorized submitting was made after a panel of three judges on the identical courtroom sided with the federal government final week and dominated that the regulation, which requires TikTok to divest from its China-based dad or mum firm or face a ban as quickly as subsequent month, was constitutional.

If the regulation shouldn’t be overturned, each TikTok and its dad or mum ByteDance, which can be a plaintiff within the case, have claimed that the favored app will shut down by Jan. 19, 2025. TikTok has greater than 170 million American customers.

“Earlier than that occurs, the Supreme Court docket ought to have a possibility, as the one courtroom with appellate jurisdiction over this motion, to resolve whether or not to evaluate this exceptionally essential case,” attorneys for the 2 corporations wrote within the authorized submitting on Monday.

It isn’t clear if the Supreme Court docket will take up the case.

President-elect Donald Trump, who tried to ban TikTok the final time he was within the White Home, has stated he’s now towards such motion.

Of their authorized submitting, the 2 corporations pointed to the political realities, saying that an injunction would offer a “modest delay” that will give “the incoming Administration time to find out its place — which may moot each the upcoming harms and the necessity for Supreme Court docket evaluate.”