The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments this week in a case challenging a law that seeks to ban the popular app TikTok in the United States if it is not sold by its owner, Byte Dance, which is based in China.

The briefs, filed a week before oral arguments, offered sharply differing accounts of China’s influence over the site and the role of the First Amendment.

The president-elect backed TikTok in a Truth Social post Friday as he tries to halt the law from taking effect.

Harvard University has hired another law firm to help it navigate a U.S. House investigation into its response to claims of pervasive antisemitism on campus, weeks after mounting criticism helped spur the resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay.

The Justice Department is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to bypass President-elect Donald Trump's attempt to delay a TikTok ban from going into effect.

ByteDance’s control of TikTok poses a serious threat to national security,” the DOJ stated, emphasizing the urgency of enforcing the law. TikTok has filed its own motion, a

Late Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice urged the Supreme Court to deny President-elect Donald Trump's request to postpone the enforcement of a law mandating the sale or potential ban of the popular social media app TikTok by January 19.