U.S. consumer finance agency lawyer sides with Trump over succession - sources

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U.S. consumer finance agency lawyer sides with Trump over succession - sources
Reuters, Nov 26, 2017, Patrick Rucker, Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top lawyer for the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has concluded that President Donald Trump has the authority to name its acting director, three sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday, rejecting an effort by her former boss at the agency to name his immediate successor.

The office of CFPB General Counsel Mary McLeod has prepared a memo concurring with the opinion of the U.S. Justice Department that Trump has the power to appoint his budget chief, Mick Mulvaney, as temporary leader of the federal watchdog agency, according to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.


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CFPB Official Sues Trump Over Leadership Pick
Townhall, Nov 27, 2017, Leah Barkoukis

A Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official sued President Trump on Sunday over his appointment of Office and Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney to serve as interim director of the agency.

Leandra English filed the lawsuit late Sunday to block Mulvaney from taking over the CFPB, and asked for a declaratory judgment by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on the matter.

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But English argues that provisions within the Dodd-Frank Act that lay out the agency’s line of succession override the Federal Vacancies Act.

“The president’s purported or intended appointment of defendant Mulvaney as Acting Director of the CFPB is unlawful,” the complaint reads, adding that the president’s use of the Federal Vacancies Act is “an obvious contravention of Congress’s statutory scheme” that “cannot be reconciled with Dodd-Frank’s mandatory language.”


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