consumer financial protection bureau

The CFPB and Absence versus Resignation

Post author:Tenth Amendment Center
Post published:November 30, 2017
Post category:Network Archives Sovereignty Tenth Amendment Center

In the on-going debate over who now heads the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the focus has been on whether the statute establishing the CFPB (the Dodd-Frank Act) overrides the Vacancy Reform Act (VRA). (Marty Lederman has a good discussion here). The debate highlights a broader point about textualism (and, by extension, originalism). Dodd-Frank says that…

Increasing Executive Power: Progressively Making Congress Irrelevant

Post author:Grassroots in Nebraska (GiN)
Post published:August 4, 2011
Post category:Federal Nebraska Network Archives South Carolina

Author’s Note: This article was originally drafted in mid-June, before the debt ceiling debacle even began to unfold. I have revised parts of the article to reflect events which have occurred in the interim, but I want to point out that the deal Congress just passed with respect to the debt ceiling is yet [...]