FIRST ON FOX: Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz, together with different Republican Congress members, filed an amicus temporary in help of U.S. gun producers, urging the Supreme Court docket “to uphold American Sovereignty and the Second Amendment.”
The case, Smith & Wesson Manufacturers, Inc. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, stems from a lawsuit filed in 2021 by the Mexican authorities, by which the federal government alleged U.S. gun producers, like Smith & Wesson, Ruger and others, needs to be chargeable for gun violence carried out by cartels south of the border, as a result of the businesses had been allegedly conscious their firearms had been being trafficked into the nation.
“I am leading this amicus brief to uphold American sovereignty and our Second Amendment. The lawsuit filed by Mexico seeks to trample on our Constitution,” Cruz instructed Fox Information Digital. “I look forward to the Supreme Court ending this madness, putting an end to Mexico’s assault on our Second Amendment, and sending a clear message that American sovereignty will not be eroded by any country.”
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Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Mike Braun, R-Ind., Invoice Cassidy, R-La., John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Rick Scott, R-Fla., are simply a number of Senate members becoming a member of Cruz in submitting the temporary. Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., Clay Higgins, R-La., Pete Periods, R-Texas, and Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., have additionally joined Cruz’s temporary.
Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz, together with different Republican Congress members, filed an amicus temporary in help of U.S. gun producers, urging the Supreme Court docket “to uphold American Sovereignty and the Second Amendment.” (AP Photograph/Michael Wyke)
“I joined Senator Cruz and my Home GOP colleagues on this case as a result of it was the precise factor to do and the one option to make,” Issa mentioned in a press release. “This lawsuit has unified our friends and allies almost as never before, including from the National Shooting Sports Foundation and the Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition, and now the Supreme Court will listen to our petitions to hear this case.”
“This is a landmark legal question and weighs whether to allow foreign governments to violate American sovereignty, bankrupt our firearms industry with lawfare, and undermine our Second Amendment rights. Today, we reaffirm our commitment to our constitutional freedoms. Our cause will prevail,” Issa continued.
Reps. Darrell Issa additionally joined Sen. Ted Cruz’s temporary. (AP Photograph/Gregory Bull)
The submitting slams the lawsuit as a complete, calling it “an try to coopt the facility of the federal judiciary to each circumvent the function of Congress and usurp the function of the Govt.” The submitting continues on to say that the swimsuit disregards the “respective roles” assigned by the Structure to the federal branches and thus proves to be “an affront” to American sovereignty.
The temporary additionally says that the precise to bear arms beneath the Second Modification is “fundamental to our scheme of ordered liberty,” quoting a separate Supreme Court docket case. By way of the current lawsuit, the temporary says Mexico is making an attempt to impose “massive costs and injunctive relief” towards American gun producers, one thing “no public body in the United States could do via legislation or regulation.”
The temporary goes on to say that the precise to bear arms beneath the Second Modification is “fundamental to our scheme of ordered liberty,” quoting a separate Supreme Court docket case. (Spencer Platt/Getty Pictures)
Greater than two dozen high Republican prosecutors had beforehand urged the Court docket to take up the case in Could of this 12 months. That amicus temporary, filed by Montana Legal professional Normal Austin Knudsen together with different GOP colleagues, urged the excessive courtroom to listen to the case with the intention to cease “a foreign sovereign’s use of American courts to effectively limit the rights of American citizens.”
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Mexico’s lawsuit was initially dismissed by a Massachusetts federal choose, however Mexico efficiently appealed its case to the U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the First Circuit, with the help of California and different Democrat-led states.
The excessive courtroom set oral arguments for the case for February 2025.
