In a new court filing in support of the ongoing legal action against the U.S. Department of Treasury, individuals seeking to overturn the decision to sanction Ethereum mixing service Tornado Cash presented key arguments for the case.

Per the plaintiffs, “this case is not about carving out special rules for new technology,” but rather holding the Treasury “to the basic requirements of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.”

Taking to Twitter, Coinbase’s chief legal officer Paul Grewal summarized the arguments, stating that “they all come down to the same problem,” that the Government is attempting to ban open-source software using a property sanctions statute.

“Because this isn’t what the law was meant to do, [the Government] can’t make the law fit this case,” argues Grewal.

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