US Congressman Ritchie Torres has urged the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to reconsider its strict stance against the crypto industry, and specifically called on SEC Chair Gary Gensler to halt any assault on crypto. This follows a recent court case where Ripple scored a summary judgment win, in which Judge Analisa Torres ruled that programmatic sales of XRP by Ripple do not constitute securities sales. Rep. Torres criticized the SEC's "sloppy" use of the Howey test, a method used to determine whether an asset is a security. He called for Gensler and the SEC to provide clarity and fair notice to the industry and assess its regulatory stance on crypto in light of the Torres Doctrine, which clarifies that cryptos are not securities per se, but can be included in investment contracts which do qualify as securities.