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Financial Daily Dose 6.30.2020 | Top Story: Supreme Court Allows President to Fire CFPB Director, Lets Agency Remain

By a 5-4 margin, the Supreme Court has ordered the restructuring of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, “ruling the agency’s structure was unconstitutional because its director held too much unchecked power.” The fix, according to the Court, is allowing the President to remove the CFPB’s director “for any reason,” which it deemed sufficient to reject arguments to “strike down the bureau altogether”....
By: Robins Kaplan LLP
Source Url: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/financial-daily-dose-6-30-2020-top-48465/

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