In a 2-to-1 ruling, a federal appeals court said a lower court could not block the Trump administration’s plans to reduce the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s staff by nearly 90 percent.
The seals on the entrances to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington have been scraped off. The Trump administration wants to lay off most of the agency’s workers.
Judges across the country have repeatedly called out Justice Department lawyers for violating their orders and even for destroying the bonds of trust that the government has traditionally been afforded in court.