President-elect Donald Trump urged the Supreme Court to pause a controversial ban on TikTok that is set to take effect next month, telling the justices in a legal filing Friday that a delay would allow his administration to “pursue a negotiated resolution.

The president-elect took no position on the app’s First Amendment challenge to the law, which sets a Jan. 19 deadline to sell or close the popular platform.

Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to block a federal law’s imminent ban on TikTok in the United States if the popular app’s Chinese parent company doesn’t sell it by next month’s deadline. The nation’s highest court will hear arguments in the case on January 10.

Donald Trump has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to pause a federal TikTok law that would ban the popular social media app or force its sale, with the Republican U.S. President-elect arguing that he should have time after taking office to pursue a "political resolution" to the issue.

Donald Trump has stepped in to potentially reverse a ban on TikTok in the United States in a move of major significance for the social media industry - he has 14.7million followers on the app

The president-elect said that pushing back a potential ban on TikTok would give him time to negotiate a way to “save the platform.”

A U.S. law against Chinese-owned TikTok evokes the censorship regimes put in place by the United States' authoritarian enemies, free-speech advocates told the Supreme Court on Friday.

Trump asked the Supreme Court to delay the ban past the Jan. 19 deadline so that his incoming administration can make a deal.