Republicans, Trump Disagree About TikTok Ahead of Supreme Court Case

While President-elect Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to block a looming U.S. ban on TikTok in a major case that pits free speech rights against national security concerns over the Chinese-owned short-video app, many of his Republican allies have urged the opposite. These diverging views raise the stakes for the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, as it prepares to decide the fate of a popular social media platform used by about half of Americans in a case testing the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment protections against government abridgment of speech.