The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to reject TikTok’s bid to put a law that could ban the app on hold while it appeals to the Supreme Court.

The law, which requires TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to divest from the app or face a ban on Jan. 19, was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit last week.

The DOJ argued that TikTok simply rehashed claims that the appeals court has already rejected, and failed to show why it should block the law from going into effect as Congress intended.

It also emphasized that the two sides........

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