The Supreme Court Is Poised to Strike Down a Major Obama-Era Agency

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau concentrates power in the hands of a single, unelected, unaccountable official.

By Ilya Shapiro October 21, 2019

Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear what could end up being the most consequential case of the term — in a year where the justices are already taking up employment discrimination, the Second Amendment, abortion, DACA, school choice, and other issues of higher political salience. In Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Court will decide the constitutionality of an agency long criticized not just by the business community and free-market-oriented politicians but also by constitutional scholars who see major problems with its structure as a single-director agency seemingly unaccountable to the president or anyone else..........To Read More.....