Christine Chen Zinner & Christine Hines have written Consumer Protection Under the Trump CFPB. What Comes Next?, 38 Loy. Consumer L. Rev. 131 (2026). I can’t find it on the web yet except on Westlaw at 38 LYCLREV 131. Here’s the concluding paragraph: In this current moment, with seemingly no checks on wrongdoing and little […]
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Here. The report–by Alan S. Kaplinsky, Richard J. Andreano, Jr., John L. Culhane, Jr. & Adam Maarec—is based in turn on a report by Semafor’s Eleanor Mueller. In their view, this “make[s] practical and legal sense” because it “help[s] avoid a leadership vacuum.” Vought’s acting director term is to expire August 1 and in the likely event that Johnson […]
That’s according to American Banker’s Kate Berry in Disclosures show CFPB pick’s ties to several regulated firms. And, of course, Johnson currently works for Cap One.
Well, the Senate Banking Committee’s hearing on the nominee for CFPB director was ridiculously short. Senators got only five minutes to ask questions of three nominees for different agencies. How strange that people complain about the CFPB’s lack of accountability and then spend far less time publicly vetting the nominee to lead the Bureau than, […]
I have no inside information about CFPB director-nominee Brian Johnson’s prospects for confirmation, but unless at least one Republican senator on the Senate Banking Committee votes against his confirmation, he will move to a vote by the entire Senate even if every Committee Democrat votes against him. Two Republican members of the Committee–Senators Tillis and […]
A federal court’s consideration of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s plan to lay off employees is temporarily delayed pending the nomination of a new director. More than a year ago, the National Treasury Employees Union sued the CFPB’s Acting Director Russell Vought and others, seeking to halt the rushed attempt to mass fire employees and […]
It’s not the biggest issue at the CFPB, but I really miss the old days of transparency. It’s hard to have any accountability if you don’t know what’s going on–or these days, not going on. This week, for the first time since he took over, Acting CFPB Director Vought will testify before Congress about the […]
Until recently, the CFPB had regional offices around the country, and of course, some employees were assigned to these offices. But according to Bloomberg Law’s Evan Weinberger, the Bureau has told the employees who worked at these offices that if they wanted to keep their jobs, they had only two weeks to decide whether they […]
Alisher Juzgenbayev, a J.D./Ph.D. Candidate at Northwestern, has written The Vanishing Enforcer: Consumer Protection in an Era of Dual Retrenchment, 120 Nw. L. Rev. 1449 (2026). Here’s the abstract: Recent developments, including reductions in the federal workforce, effective suspension of certain enforcement activities, and attempted centralization of independent agency rulemaking in the White House, have […]