Fifth Circuit Rules that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is Unconstitutionally Funded: What Does the Decision Mean? A Deep Dive with Special Guest Isaac Boltansky, BTIG
Earlier this month, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled President Trump’s removal of Democrat commissioners from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was unlawful. In a 2-1 decision, the panel held...more
A divided federal appeals court has ruled that President Trump illegally fired Democratic FTC member Rebecca Slaughter and has ordered that she be reinstated to her position....more
In a significant decision with broad implications for the structure and independence of federal regulatory agencies, the U.S. Supreme Court on July 23, 2025, granted President Trump’s request to remove three Democratic...more
The reinstatement of two Democratic NCUA board members has been put on hold by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia....more
A federal judge has ruled that the President Trump violated federal law when he fired Rebecca Slaughter, a Democrat, as a member of the FTC....more
President Donald Trump’s efforts to alter the make up of the Board membership of the NLRB faces a new, but anticipated, legal challenge. Recently fired former Board Member Gwynne Wilcox has challenged her January 27th removal...more
In 1984, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that courts must defer to an administrative agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute. But last year, the Supreme Court stripped the FTC of its ability to seek...more
Thursday afternoon, by a vote of 50-49, the Senate confirmed Kathy Kraninger as CFPB Director. Pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act, the CFPB Director has a five-year term. ...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: One court upholds protection of Dodd-Frank limiting the President’s removal authority, while another court stifles a challenge against Mulvaney serving as acting Director of CFPB....more
Although the RESPA issues were addressed in the briefs filed by the parties in the PHH case, at oral argument this week the parties and the en banc D.C. Circuit focused heavily on whether the president’s authority is...more