The U.S. Justice Department is petitioning the Supreme Court not to entertain President-elect Donald Trump's attempts to influence the court's decision related to a law that would ban TikTok in just over two weeks.

The briefs, filed a week before oral arguments, offered sharply differing accounts of China’s influence over the site and the role of the First Amendment.

The Biden administration suggested that the Supreme Court should reject Donald Trump’s request to delay a law that would ban TikTok in the US if it isn’t sold by its Chinese parent company.