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

The Supreme Court declines to save TikTok, ruling against the social media apps challenge to a law saying that it must be divested

from Chinese ownership or banned from U.S. app stores. But what ultimately happens now seems to be up to one

Donald J. Trump. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson

with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues, columnists Alicia Finley, and

Kim Strassel. On Friday morning, a week after hearing oral arguments in TikTok versus Garland,

and two days before the January 19 deadline, facing the app's owner

Bite Dance, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision declining to say that this mandate

that it be divested or banned from app stores abridges the First Amendment. Here's a piece

of the conclusion of the per curiam opinion, meaning we don't know the specific author of it.

Court says there's no doubt for more than 170 million Americans, TikTok offers a distinctive

and expansive outlet for expression, means of engagement, and source of community.

But Congress has determined that divestiture is necessary to address its well-supported national

security concerns regarding TikTok's data collection practices and relationship with a foreign adversary.

Alicia, what do you make of this opinion and the distinctions that the court is drawing here with

regard to the law that Congress passed, remember, putting this

mandate on TikTok's ownership?

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