Consumer Finance Agency Official Sues to Stop Trump Appointment

newsmax ^ | Nov 26, 2017 | AP via Newsmax

[Oshkalaboomboom]

President Donald Trump's appointment of his budget director as interim director of a consumer financial protection agency championed by Democrats was challenged in a lawsuit filed in federal court Sunday night.

Leandra English, the federal official elevated to the position of interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by its outgoing director, filed the suit against Trump and his choice, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney.

The suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia asked for a declaratory judgment and a temporary restraining order to block Mulvaney from taking over the bureau.

English cited the Dodd-Frank Act, which created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She said that as deputy director, she became the acting director under the law and argued that the federal law the White House contends supports Trump's appointment of Mulvaney doesn't apply when another statute designates a successor.

English was chief of staff to bureau director Richard Cordray when he named her deputy director as he prepared to resign last Friday. Cordray was appointed to the position by President Barack Obama and has been long criticized by congressional Republicans as overzealous.

The White House, with the support of an opinion issued Saturday by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, maintained that the president has the power to appoint an acting director. Steven A. Engel, newly confirmed head of the office, wrote that, while the deputy director may serve as acting director under the statute, the president still has authority under the Vacancies Reform Act.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Some people still haven't figured out that elections have consequences.

[easternsky]

Makes you wonder why fighting so hard

[Nateman]

The left is fighting this because this mafia like fiefdom was designed by Pack Rat Elizabeth Warren to shake down deep pockets and put the loot in Rat hands. To make sure the racket money flowed uninterrupted it gets funding from the Federal Reserve and its leadership was crafted to be free of Republican control. Everybody from the top down is a RAT and the law was made that way for that purpose.

[easternsky]

Thanks for info

[stylin19a]

RATs fight this man every second of every minute of every day...and he still wins.
No question this was all planned right through all the appeals long before Richard Cordray changed his adios date.

[olezip]

She said that as deputy director, she became the acting director under the law and argued that the federal law the White House contends supports Trump's appointment of Mulvaney doesn't apply when another statute designates a successor.

Are these nonsensical weasel words? What happened to "the buck stops here?"

Do they really think that the POTUS does not have responsibility for the entire government? Can we have portions of our government outside of our government?

[NonValueAdded]

The FVRA sure seems to be on point, especially since the witch hasn't held her position for 90 days. §3345(b)(1)(A)(ii)

[Pearls Before Swine]

Thanks for the explanation, that CFPB serves thru settlements as a Dem party funder.

One question about its funding through the Federal Reserve. Could this be affected (i.e., slashed) through Trump’s appointments to the Federal Reserve, or is the CFPB somehow automatically granted all the operating funds it wants? In other words, what brakes are there in its uncontrolled expansion?

[Nateman]

...what brakes are there in its uncontrolled expansion?

None that I know of. The DC Court of Appeals concluded it had so much power they altered the law so a President could fire the Director. A full court review from May is coming out soon.

The CFPB spent more on building infrastructure than the rest of the Federal Government combined. Who knows how many palms got filled as that loot swirled down the RAThole.