TikTok is reportedly prepared to shut down its app on Sunday, when the ban is scheduled to take effect, though the actual language of the law technically only mandates that the social media platform be taken off of app stores to prevent new users from downloading it.

In a concurring opinion, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote, "Whether this law will succeed in achieving its ends, I do not know."

The Supreme Court seemed to lean Thursday toward upholding a law forcing Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell off TikTok, with all nine justices indicating national security concerns posed by the social media app outweighed potential threats to free speech.

US Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch called on Congress or the judiciary’s committee responsible for drafting rules for federal courts to address the government’s use of classified evidence that’s shielded from litigants.

The Supreme Court seems skeptical of the Chinese-owned platform’s First Amendment claim.

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch expressed concerns about not having enough time to decide on the US TikTok ban.

A determined foreign adversary may just seek to replace one lost surveillance application with another,” Gorsuch wrote in a concurrence with the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to uphold the TikTok ban.

With a TikTok ban scheduled to go into effect in the United States on Sunday, many users began to see messages preventing them from using the app when they opened it after 10 p.m. Eastern on Saturday.

The Supreme Court appeared ready to uphold a law that will ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owners don't sell the widly popular platform.

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The US Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that could soon ban TikTok. While its decision — that the divest-or-ban law does not violate the ...

"I cannot profess the kind of certainty I would like to have about the arguments and record before us," writes Justice Gorsuch.

TikTok contested the ban in court, arguing that it violates the free speech rights of both users and the company — an appeal that it took all the way to the Supreme Court, which heard the case on Jan. 10.