Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal posted on X: "Just a few days before the Fifth Circuit Court ruled that the OFAC sanctions against the code were illegal, some in Congress raised a series of questions about how this code was being used despite the sanctions. Now they will ask an obvious question in return: How many Americans can legally use Tornado Cash, yet are deprived of their privacy rights because their own government is violating the law?"

Previously, news reported that the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court ruled that the Treasury's sanctions against Tornado Cash's smart contracts were illegal.