Republican judge orders the entire Consumer Financial Protection Bureau eliminated
A Republican federal trial judge held on Thursday that the entire Consumer Financial Protection Bureau all of it must cease to exist. The case is CFPB v. RD Legal Funding.
Judge Loretta Preskas decision on this matter can barely even be described as an opinion because she devotes less than two pages of analysis to this question before proclaiming that a federal agency must be simply wiped away. Instead, Preska adopts the reasoning of two federal appellate judges who dissented in a similar case holding that the CFPB is, in fact, constitutional. Significantly, a crucial segment of Preskas conclusions were only shared by one of these dissenting judges out of a total of ten judges who heard that federal appellate case.
And it gets worse from there. The dissenting opinions Preska relies upon were published on January 31. On May 14, the Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Murphy v. NCAA parts of which are inconsistent with Preskas conclusion that the entire CFPB must be struck down. Preskas opinion makes no reference to Murphy. In fact, the judge who literally judge ordered an entire agency to be shut down appears blissfully unaware of Murphys existence.
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https://thinkprogress.org/republican-judge-orders-the-entire-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-eliminated-4a80a1147f2e/|
Fucking hell. How the fuck do saboteurs like this get a job as a judge?