An Easy Case: Why a Federal Appeals Court Should Reject a Constitutional Challenge to the CFPB
By Brian Simmonds Marshall, Americans for Financial Reform The Dodd-Frank Act created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to invigorate consumer financial protection by consolidating responsibility for those laws’ interpretation and enforcement in a single agency. Even before the CFPB opened its doors, industry forces set out to weaken it through bills that would change its single-director structure, among other means. […]