A rather strange situation is unfolding at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Bizarre to us, but just another day in Trumpland. It started last week when CFPB Director Richard Cordray (an Obama appointee) stepped down and named Leandra English deputy director of the agency. The agency's official website posted the news along with this statement from Cordray, "Leandra is a seasoned professional who has spent her career of public service focused on promoting smooth and efficient operations." Soon after though Donald Trump decided to make his own appointment naming Budget Director Mick Mulvaney as the interim head of the agency. This has caused quite the uproar, with Democrats like Chuck Schumer saying:
"The process for succession laid out in Dodd Frank is clear: Leandra English, not Mick Mulvaney, is the acting dir of @CFPB. By attempting to install Mr. Mulvaney as director, the Trump admin is ignoring the established, legal order of succession that we purposefully put in place."
How Mulvaney has time to lead the budget office and the CFPB is beyond us, but now we are learning the battle over who will temporary lead the CFPB is going to head to court.
The Hill reports:
The deputy director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Leandra English, is suing President Trump in order to block Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney from taking over as acting director of the agency.
English filed a complaint Sunday night against Trump and Mulvaney, whom the president nominated to be CFPB's interim leader.
English claims that she is the rightful acting director of the CFPB...
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