FIRST ON FOX: Texas GOP Senator Ted Cruzalong with other members of the Republican Congress, filed an amicus brief in support of American gun manufacturers, urging the Supreme Court to “uphold American sovereignty and the Second Amendment.”
The case, Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. v. United Mexican States, stems from a lawsuit filed in 2021 by the Mexican government, in which the government alleged that U.S. gun manufacturers, such as Smith & Wesson, Ruger and others, should be liable for gun violence committed by cartels south of the border because the companies were allegedly aware that their firearms were used. smuggled into the country.
“I am leading this amicus brief to uphold American sovereignty and our Second Amendment. The lawsuit filed by Mexico aims to trample on our Constitution,” Cruz told Fox News Digital. “I look forward to the Supreme Court putting an end to this madness, putting an end to Mexico’s attack 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., Bill Cassidy, R-La., John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Rick Scott, R-Fla., are just some of the Senate members joining Cruz joins the filing of the pleadings. Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., Clay Higgins, R-La., Pete Sessions, R-Texas, and Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., also joined Cruz’s brief.
Texas GOP Senator Ted Cruz, along with other members of the Republican Congress, filed an amicus brief in support of America’s gun manufacturers, urging the Supreme Court to “uphold American sovereignty and the Second Amendment.” (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)
“I joined Senator Cruz and my House GOP colleagues in this case because it was the right thing to do and the only choice we could make,” Issa said in a statement. “This lawsuit has united our friends and allies almost like never before, including the National Shooting Sports Foundation and the Firearms Regulatory. Accountability Coalition, and now the Supreme Court will hear our petitions to hear this case.”
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“This is an important legal question and weighs whether we should allow foreign governments to violate American sovereignty, bankrupt our firearms industry through legal means, and undermine our Second Amendment rights. Today we reaffirm our commitment to our constitutional freedoms. Our cause will prevail,” Issa continued.
Representatives Darrell Issa also joined Senator Ted Cruz’s order. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
The filing denounces the lawsuit as a whole, calling it “an attempt to co-opt the power of the federal judiciary to circumvent both the rule of law and the rule of law.” the role of Congress and usurp the role of the executive branch.” The filing goes on to say that the lawsuit ignores the “respective roles” assigned to the federal departments by the Constitution and is thus “an affront” to American sovereignty turns out to be.
The letter also says the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment is “fundamental to our plan of liberty,” citing a separate Supreme Court case. Through the current lawsuit, the letter said Mexico is trying to impose “enormous costs and injunctive relief” on U.S. weapons manufacturers, something “no government agency in the United States could do through law or regulation.”
The letter goes on to say that the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment is “fundamental to our plan of ordered liberty,” citing a separate Supreme Court case. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
More than two dozen top Republican prosecutors had done so the Court has previously insisted to hear the case in May this year. That amicus brief, filed by Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen along with other GOP colleagues, urged the Supreme Court to hear the case to prevent “a foreign sovereign from using U.S. courts to undermine the rights of effectively restrict American citizens.”
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The Mexican lawsuit was initially dismissed by a Massachusetts federal judge, but Mexico successfully appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, with the support of California and other Democratic-led states.
The Supreme Court has set oral arguments in the case for February 2025.
