Heavy-hitting lawyers went against the feds on behalf of TikTok and its content creators including a prominent libertarian journalist at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Monday, in a case that's either about "American speech" or "Chinese engineers" controlling what Americans can see, judging by each side's arguments.
The Liberty Justice Center, which is live-posting the oral argument on X, is representing BASED Politics, a nonprofit co-founded by Brad Polumbo, a former Washington Examiner opinion columnist, that uses social media to "promote ideas related to free markets and individual liberty to a Gen Z audience."
Arguing for TikTok and its Chinese owner ByteDance is Mayer Brown lawyer Andrew Pincus, and for content creators is Jeffrey Fisher of Stanford Law School, Reuters reported in a preview of the argument. Both are prominent Supreme Court litigators.
