There has been another complication in the Trump administration’s effort to shut down the intrusive and arguably unconstitutional Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). On Friday, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia blocked the dismantling of the CFPB.
The attached excerpt of the decision reads:
The motion for preliminary injunction to be decided boils down to one question: should the Court take action to preserve the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau now, before the case concerning its fate has been resolved? That is an extraordinary step, and before it can step in, the Court must conclude that the plaintiffs are likely to succeed in their claims, that they would suffer irreparable harm in the meantime if the Court lets the lawsuit run its course, and that an injunction would be in the public…
