Here is what Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Kentanji Brown Jackson and Chief Justice John Roberts said about TikTok's Chinese parent company.

The Supreme Court seemed to lean Thursday toward upholding a law forcing Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell off TikTok, with all nine justices indicating national security concerns posed by the social media app outweighed potential threats to free speech.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh brought up past examples of the U.S. blocking broadcasting companies from having ties to foreign governments and brought up the government’s concerns about TikTok collecting data on U.S. users, which he said “seems like a huge concern for the future of the country.”

The political battle over TikTok heads for a showdown this weekend when a law effectively banning the popular video-sharing app in the U.S. will go into effect unless the Supreme Court intervenes.

The Supreme Court seemed likely to uphold a new law that could force TikTok to shut down in the U.S., with conservative and liberal justices alike expressing skepticism about the legal challenge.

Here is what Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Kentanji Brown Jackson and Chief Justice John Roberts said about TikTok's Chinese parent company.

The Supreme Court appeared ready to uphold a law that will ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owners don't sell the widly popular platform.

The Supreme Court appeared to favor the government's national security claims over TikTok's 1st Amendment argument.

"You're ignoring the major concern here" of China manipulating content through TikTok's industry-envied algorithm and harvesting user data, Chief Justice John Roberts tells TikTok lawyer, Trump's former solicitor general.

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to uphold a law that requires ByteDance Ltd. to sell TikTok or face a ban of the app. Several publications reported on the court’s position today following a three-hour hearing about the matter. During the hearing, several justices leaned towards accepting the U.S. government’s arguments in favor of the law.

Chief Justice John Roberts asked if the Chinese-based ByteDance is using TikTok to get Americans to argue with each other. “If they do, I’d say they’re winning,” Roberts said to laughter ...

"So why can't we simply look at it as a restriction on ByteDance?" Chief Justice John Roberts noted that Congress found that ByteDance cooperates with the Chinese government's intelligence work ...