Judge Orders Trump Admin to Halt CFPB Shutdown, Reinstate Employees

Judge Amy Berman Jackson said that court intervention was ‘extraordinary’ but necessary and that the administration disregarded Congress’s intent.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson at the U.S. District Court in Washington on April 13, 2018. Alex Wong/Getty Images

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on March 28 preventing the Trump administration from continuing what she described as a shutdown of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

“If the defendants are not enjoined, they will eliminate the agency before the Court has the opportunity to decide whether the law permits them to do it, and ... the harm will be irreparable,” U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote in an opinion.