Its very interesting, and from what I've read, the SEC is fucked. Its not too different than the idea that the government wanted to go after crypto and instead crashed traditional finance. Here they want to shut down Coinbase to make a case out of the, but Coinbase has a shit ton of evidence that they tried for years to ask for guidance and didn't get any. Plus, the regulatory agencies cannot even agree on who should be doing the regulating, as if there were regulations anyway.
Now obviously enough people can be bribed off to make this case come out however they want, but the idea that you can sue someone for doing something wrong when the rules weren't even in place yet is absurd.
The US is quickly becoming and banana republic and everything that countries like Russia and China were once accused of will be exactly how the US is managed. Its going to be dictatorship and most won't be able to fight it because they will be reliant on the free handouts by the dictator.