Circuit judges on Wednesday overturned a ruling that would have allowed President Donald Trump to fire the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s director at will, preserving the agency's current structure and setting up a potentially messy process before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rules, by a 7–3 vote, that the independent structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is constitutional. A separate case involving directorial succession is under appeal; lower courts have approved the president's selection of Mick Mulvaney as head of CFPB.