Leandra English, the deputy director of CFPB, has brought suit against Trump and his pick for acting director, Mick Mulvaney: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4310647-English-Complaint-CFPB.html#document/p1 …pic.twitter.com/ZQGQUmIIe4
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Background information on Kelly from the White House when he was nominated in June:pic.twitter.com/8pdyg89ybp
CFPB HEARING: 4:30P TODAY / Follow @ZoeTillman for more on that:https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/935229130454589440 …
OMB communications staff tweets out photo of Mulvaney talking to reporters, referencing him (again) as acting director of CFBP, 15 minutes *before* a court hearing on that very question:https://twitter.com/CZ/status/935254917815717888 …
Neither entity needs a full-time director, apparently.https://twitter.com/DomenicoNPR/status/935254519520391168 …
Mulvaney acknowledges he ... will follow court orders. (This isn't surprising.)https://twitter.com/gabriellahope_/status/935255173248757767 …
No immediate ruling from court —>https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/935271200124751878 …
The latest in CFPB world, another court hearing this afternoon —>https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/935538624627650560 …
Here is @ZoeTillman's story on today's ruling on CFPB. Short answer: Mulvaney stays in charge. —>https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/a-judge-just-ruled-that-that-trump-can-install-his-own-pick?utm_term=.nwOLgw1WA#.tig61zLY0 …
Well, this sure doesn’t *look* like they’re giving up just yet:https://twitter.com/nancypelosi/status/935659689290948608 …
Isn't Mulvaney a necessary party?
He's a defendant as well. Screen cap cut off.
Since the statute is plain and easily interpreted, we'll get a quick read on whether Judge Kelly respects the law or has an overriding ideological bent.
The law says Trump is right. The board's own lawyer says that. Besides that, Trump could just fire English.
Excuse me while I pour a flagon of cold, delicious #Schadenfreude
Your rules, Progressives!
Don't hate the Playa, hate the Game that YOU CREATED.
Ahahahaha oh my God, this is the best day.
#Trump's transformation of the #judiciary is an outrage.
Not at all.
And the appeal of that ruling will be heard buy an Obama appointee, and so on. But we already know Congress can't create an executive agency that the chief executive has no control over. That's not how the separation of powers thing works
"Congress can't create an executive agency that the chief executive has no control over." That's a beautiful summation!
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