Legal Team Behind XRP Court Win Predicts Clarity Act Won't Pass Congress

Dr. Kamilah Stevenson attended a legal panel featuring John Deaton, James Murphy and other members of the team that prevailed against the SEC over XRP’s status. In a lightning round at the end of the session, the moderator asked whether the Clarity Act would pass before the U.S. midterms.

“All three of them said, no,” Stevenson reported, stressing that the group has been in Capitol Hill meetings and is not “pessimist by nature.”

Murphy, described as the optimist of the group, reportedly argued that the Senate Banking Committee would need to complete markup by mid-May for the bill to have a chance, and he “does not believe it’s gonna happen.”

Deaton went further, saying that if the bill does not pass under the current Congress, “it’s dead.” The lawyers forecast that if the House flips to Democratic control, Sen. Elizabeth Warren could chair the Senate Banking Committee, shifting focus from legislation to “subpoenas and investigations instead of legislation,” with impeachment politics likely to bury crypto reform.

In the same segment, the panel was asked whether the House will “turn blue in November” and whether Donald Trump and his family would be investigated over crypto holdings. According to the host, all three lawyers answered “yes” to both questions and framed the latter as “100% guaranteed.”

Despite this gloomy legislative outlook, Dr. Kamilah Stevenson emphasized the panel’s view that XRP sits in a unique regulatory position. A federal judge has already ruled “that XRP in itself is not a security,” a decision that still stands.

The host also cited recent joint guidance from the SEC and CFTC that “specifically named XRP as a commodity token,” noting the agencies “did not have to do that, they chose to.”

On the infrastructure side, Kamilah Stevenson highlighted ongoing developments that do not depend on the Clarity Act: Ripple Prime operating inside DTCC clearing operations, Societe Generale launching a regulated euro stablecoin on the XRP Ledger, South Korea piloting tokenized government bond settlement with Ripple technology, and Japanese payment tests reportedly cutting costs by 60% versus SWIFT.

The legal team, the host said, framed Ripple’s support for the Clarity Act as industry-wide advocacy rather than a necessity for XRP itself.

The main message from the session was blunt: broader U.S. crypto legislation may be stalled or derailed by partisan conflict, but XRP’s legal clarity and ongoing adoption make it an outlier in a crowded field. Whether that thesis holds will depend less on Congress in the near term and more on how institutions continue to deploy XRP in real-world systems.

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