In Huge Win For Trump, Appeals Court Lifts Crooked Obama Judge’s Injunction, Allows Trump Admin to Dismantle Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
A federal appeals court on Friday lifted an injunction from crooked Obama Judge Amy Berman Jackson that had blocked the Trump Administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 ruling allowed the Trump Administration to move forward and dismantle the CFPB.
The three-judge panel included: Majority: Katsas (Trump), Rao (Trump), and dissent: Pillard (Obama).
Politico reported:
A federal appeals court panel has cleared the way for the Trump administration to largely dismantle the work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, lifting a lower-court judge’s injunction that had preserved the agency’s structure — and barred mass layoffs — for months.
The 2-1 ruling, authored by Judge Gregory Katsas, said a series of legal defects in the lawsuit brought by CFPB employees and the NAACP doomed the case and required the district court judge’s blockade to be lifted.
Katsas, a Trump appointee, said the fatal flaw was the broad challenge against what the employees described as a master plan to shutter the agency altogether. While individual layoffs or contract terminations may be challenged in court, Katsas wrote that the sweeping directive to close the agency — alleged in the lawsuit — was not something the courts could review, particularly because it was unclear that the administration had made a final decision to carry out the closure.