Supreme Court upholds law that could ban TikTok in the U.S., leaving the matter to Trump

Gus Hurwitz January 17, 2025

Gus Hurwitz, director of law and economics programs at ICLE, offers perspective in this USA Today story on how the policy debate over TikTok creates a unique political dynamic for the incoming Trump administration. Read the full article here.

Gus Hurwitz, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, said the only definitive way Trump can stop the ban is to work with Congress to reverse it – which seems unlikely.

“More realistically, this gives Trump a platform to speak out against the past administration, the Supreme Court, and others who he might want to blame for TikTok being banned,” Hurwitz said. “That political dynamic will be interesting to watch in the coming months.”