TikTok and ByteDance asked the United States Supreme Court to block the law that forces TikTok to be sold off or banned in the United States, according to

Company lawyers and China-based ByteDance on Monday urged the justices to act before the law’s Jan. 19 deadline.

A federal appeals court has left in place a mid-January deadline in a federal law requiring TikTok to be sold or face a ban in the United States.

TikTok and its parent company ByteDance have asked the Supreme Court to block a law before its U.S. ban takes effect.

China-based ByteDance and its short-video app TikTok on Monday asked an appeals court to temporarily block a law that would require that parent company ByteDance divest TikTok by Jan. 19 or face a ban,

In its filing to the Supreme Court, submitted on Monday, TikTok asked for a "modest delay" to the enforcement of the ban to "create breathing room" for a review by the Court and to allow the incoming administration to "evaluate this matter".

TikTok could be banned on Jan. 19. TikTok and its owner ByteDance said Congress “enacted a massive and unprecedented speech restriction.”

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied TikTok's petition for the Supreme Court to review the ban legislation.

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