The Supreme Court upheld a law requiring a sale or ban of TikTok, but Justice Sonia Sotomayor disagreed with part of the decision.

The company argued that the law, citing potential Chinese threats to the nation’s security, violated its First Amendment rights and those of its 170 million users.

The Supreme Court’s remarkably speedy decision Friday to allow a controversial ban on TikTok to take hold will have a dramatic impact on the tens of millions of Americans who visit the app every day and broad political implications for President-elect Donald Trump.

The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld a law requiring TikTok’s China-based parent company to divest from the app, teeing up a ban set to take effect Sunday. The justices sided with the Biden administration,

A majority of the Supreme Court signaled Wednesday that Texas may be permitted to require some form of age verification for pornographic sites, but left open the possibility that deeper First Amendment questions may not be resolved immediately.

A sale does not appear imminent and, once the law takes effect, new users won’t be able to download it and updates won’t be available.

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.

The Supreme Court heard arguments in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton on Wednesday, a major First Amendment case.

The Supreme Court heard TikTok's case to toss out a ban just nine days before it will take effect. The Biden administration defended the measure on national security grounds.

With the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the law banning TikTok beginning Jan. 19th, what happens next is up to incoming POTUS Donald Trump.

Trump’s attorneys appealed to the Supreme Court after a New York appeals court refused to postpone his sentencing, which is set for Friday. Trump’s attorneys claimed that action from his allies on the Supreme Court was necessary to guard against "harm to the institution of the presidency and the operations of the federal government.”

The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over a challenge to a Texas law that requires pornography sites to verify the age of their users before providing access. Last year a federal appeals court in New Orleans allowed the state to enforce the law,