In a blow to the conservative legal movement, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is not, in fact, an unconstitutional abomination.
The independent agency — which oversees payday lenders, credit card companies, and student loans — has long been a partisan target. And as it turns out, its funding mechanism is perfectly constitutional, the court ruled Thursday in a 7-2 decision.
Its conclusion was straightforward: When it created the CFPB, Congress passed a law that authorized expenditures from specific sources to fund the agency. This satisfies the Appropriations Clause of the Constitution, the court ruled.
The attack on the CFPB is not the only challenge brought this term by conservative opponents of modern regulatory agencies. In as-yet-undecided cases, the Supreme Court will consider whether to curtail the powers of the Securities Exchange Commission and whether to gut a landmark standard for all regulatory oversight. Challenges to the National Labor Relations Board are working their way through lower courts.
Check out the radical left “protections” the CFPB has according to https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/the-bureau/. They are, “Rooting out unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices” and “enforcing laws”. How else is my business supposed to complete on a fair playing field? /s
In case anyone wants to accuse you of cherry-picking, here’s the whole dirty, subversive list:
I spotted the problem. It talks about “education” which is really just code for “communist indoctrination” obviously.