A federal appeals court on Friday lifted an injunction from crooked Obama Judge Amy Berman Jackson that had blocked the Trump Administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 ruling allowed the Trump Administration to move forward and dismantle the CFPB.
The three-judge panel included: Majority: Katsas (Trump), Rao (Trump), and dissent: Pillard (Obama).
Politico reported:
A federal appeals court panel has cleared the way for the Trump administration to largely dismantle the work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, lifting a lower-court judge’s injunction that had preserved the agency’s structure — and barred mass layoffs — for months.
The 2-1 ruling, authored by Judge Gregory Katsas, said a series of legal defects in the lawsuit brought by CFPB employees and the NAACP doomed the case and required the district court judge’s blockade to be lifted.
Katsas, a Trump appointee, said the fatal flaw was the broad challenge against what the employees described as a master plan to shutter the agency altogether. While individual layoffs or contract terminations may be challenged in court, Katsas wrote that the sweeping directive to close the agency — alleged in the lawsuit — was not something the courts could review, particularly because it was unclear that the administration had made a final decision to carry out the closure.
Earlier this year, President Trump began cleaning house after he fired Rohit Chopra, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Rohit Chopra was a toxic Biden holdover who previously threatened banks that refused to give credit lines and loans to illegal aliens.
Obama-appointed Judge Amy Berman Jackson previously barred the Trump Administration from firing CFPB workers without cause.
“Defendants shall not terminate any CFPB employee, except for cause related to the individual employee’s performance or conduct; and defendants shall not issue any notice of reduction-in-force to any CFPB employee,” Judge Jackson previously wrote.
Judge Jackson’s order came on the same day that the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled President Trump can fire members of the executive branch in a separate case related to Labor and Merit board members.
The Trump DOJ appealed Judge Jackson’s order earlier this year, and the court finally delivered Trump a win on Friday.
