The federal District Court in the District of Columbia (Amy Berman Jackson) has preliminarily enjoined the Trump Administration’s effort to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after the Court had previously intervened to prevent mass firings of employees.
“That intervention slowed, but did not deter, the defendants,” the Court said. “The shut down activities continued for the next two weeks, and it wasn’t until the Sunday afternoon before the Monday when the Court was scheduled to hold a hearing that agency officials turned around and announced to the surprised staff that they were supposed to have been performing their statutorily mandated duties all along.”
“The testimony and the contemporaneous documents,” the Court wrote, “suggest that those last minute communications were nothing more than window dressing, and that nothing has changed…. There is substantial risk that the defendants will complete the destruction of the agency completely in violation of law well before the Court can rule on the merits, and it will be impossible to rebuild.”
The Court wrote at length about the Congressional creation of the Bureau and said the plaintiffs were likely to succeed on their claims that the Administration had acted without authority and in violation of the Constitution. (National Treasury Employees Union v. Vought, D.C. DC, No 25-0381, 3/28/25.)
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