The Supreme Court on Friday grappled over a law that could determine the fate of TikTok, a wildly popular social media platform that has about 170 million users. Congress enacted the law out of concern that the app, whose owner is based in China, is susceptible to the influence of the Chinese government and posed … Read more
The Supreme Court said on Friday that it would take up a challenge to a part of the Affordable Care Act that requires insurance companies to cover some kinds of preventative care at no cost. The law, President Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement, has survived three major earlier encounters with the court. The new challenge … Read more
If TikTok’s parent company, the Chinese firm ByteDance, is forced to sell the app, who would buy it? ByteDance has said a sale is not feasible. The Chinese government has indicated that it would block a sale if it includes the algorithm that makes TikTok extremely valuable. Even if Beijing were to allow a sale, … Read more
The Supreme Court’s rejection on Thursday of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s request to be spared from being sentenced for 34 felonies was just a few lines long, and it made modest and practical points. He remains free to appeal his conviction on charges of falsifying business records, the court’s unsigned order said, and appearing by … Read more
A federal appeals court on Thursday said that it would not block the Justice Department from releasing a report by the special counsel Jack Smith about the two now-closed investigations he conducted into President-elect Donald J. Trump. In a brief and unsigned order, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, rejected … Read more
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. received a call on his cellphone Tuesday. It was President-elect Donald J. Trump, calling from Florida. Hours later, Mr. Trump’s legal team would ask Justice Alito and his eight colleagues on the Supreme Court to block his sentencing in New York for falsifying business records to cover up a hush-money … Read more
Russia fined TikTok for not removing prohibited content. The results of a presidential election in Romania were thrown out over concerns the app had been used to spread foreign influence. Albania banned TikTok for a year following the stabbing death of a teenager by another one after the two quarreled online. “Either TikTok protects the … Read more
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. spoke with President-elect Donald J. Trump on Tuesday, not long before Mr. Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to delay his sentencing following his conviction in New York in a case arising from hush money payments. “William Levi, one of my former law clerks, asked me to take a call … Read more
As President-elect Donald J. Trump prepares for his inauguration, some of the legal cases that spilled out of Mr. Trump’s first presidency will follow him into the second. Mr. Trump has signaled he plans to fight to postpone the scheduled sentencing for his criminal conviction, set by Justice Juan M. Merchan of the New York … Read more
The two sides in the momentous clash at the Supreme Court over a measure that could shut down TikTok made their closing written arguments on Friday, sharply disputing China’s influence over the site and the role the First Amendment should play in evaluating the law. Their briefs, filed on an exceptionally abbreviated schedule set last … Read more