The TikTok Majority Opinion
Here’s a quick summary of the unsigned majority opinion (called a “per curiam”), joined by all the Justices except Justice Gorsuch (who concurred in the result, but with a different analysis) and (in part) Justice Sotomayor: [1.] The Court expresses some doubt about whether the law triggers First Amendment scrutiny at all. The Court views the law as regulating “corporate control” over TikTok, rather than restricting speech directly, which makes it unclear (in the Court’s view) whether the […]