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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

As the Supreme Court prepares to consider whether Congress can ban Chinese ownership of

TikTok in the U.S., President Trump weighs in by filing an unusual friend of the court brief with the

justices. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues,

columnist Alicia Finley, and editorial board member,

Manet Uquay-Berrua.

The social media app TikTok reportedly has something like 170 million monthly users in the

United States.

And after years of debate about how the country should handle the risk of that, things are

now moving rather quickly, it seems. Last spring, Congress passed a law called the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications

Act, which says that TikTok would have to be divested from Chinese control or else it would be

banned from phone app stores in the United States. That was challenged.

And on December 6th, the appeals court for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld it in a unanimous panel ruling.

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