House passes TikTok divest-or-ban bill
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The House passes the divest-or-ban bill 352-65. Three months earlier a federal judge had preliminarily enjoined Montana’s SB 419, the first state-level TikTok ban, finding the challengers likely to succeed on First Amendment, federal-preemption and Commerce Clause grounds.
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Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Roll Call 86, H.R. 7521, On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. (2024). Official roll call record: 13 March 2024, passed 352-65 under suspension of the rules.
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U.S. Government Publishing Office. H.R. 7521, Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (as reported in the House). (2024). Bill text as it stood before House passage; enacted the following month as Division H of Public Law 118-50.
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Supreme Court of the United States. TikTok Inc. v. Garland, 604 U.S. ___. (2025). Per curiam opinion of 17 January 2025 rejecting the First Amendment challenge to the divest-or-ban provisions, the outcome of the legal fight this entry describes as pending.
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United States District Court for the District of Montana. Opinion and Order, Alario v. Knudsen, Nos. CV 23-56-M-DWM and CV 23-61-M-DWM (D. Mont.). (2023). Judge Donald W. Molloy's 48-page opinion of 30 November 2023 preliminarily enjoining Montana's SB 419. The court found the plaintiffs likely to succeed on the merits of their First Amendment, Supremacy Clause (federal preemption) and Commerce Clause claims — not the First Amendment alone.
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