Lenders Urge Supreme Court to Strike Down Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

The unusual funding mechanism for the powerful regulator makes it unaccountable and unconstitutional, the court heard.
Lenders Urge Supreme Court to Strike Down Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Sept. 18, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
Matthew Vadum
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The payday lending industry urged the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), arguing that the unorthodox scheme that Congress authorized to fund the powerful regulator is unconstitutional.

This appeal gives the court’s 6–3 conservative majority an opportunity to continue its campaign to restrain the so-called administrative state by curtailing the authority of regulators.