TikTok ban live: Shutdown in doubt as Biden suggests Trump could save app

Gus Hurwitz January 17, 2025

Gus Hurwitz, director of law and economics programs at ICLE, offered perspective in a Politico article on the TikTok SCOTUS ruling. Read the full story here.

Without a sale, TikTok will technically be banned by the time Trump enters the Oval Office, which complicates his calculus for any dealmaking but could also generate momentum.

“Allowing the law to go into effect will be the headline news for quite some time. Supreme Court defies Trump. Tiktok ban goes into effect over Trump’s will,” University of Pennsylvania law professor Gus Hurwitz told POLITICO. “That will give Trump an antagonist — the Supreme Court — to be political against.”