Much like the Trump Administration’s attempt to “dismantle and disable the agency entirely,” the administration’s latest effort to prevent CFPB from enforcing vital consumer protections is unlawful.
Month: April 2025
Lawfare: Overcoming the Tucker Act After Department of Education v. California
Even after the Supreme Court’s shadow-docket decision, there remain ways to assert award-termination challenges in district court.
NOTUS: Trump is Trying to Cut the Public Out of Federal Rulemaking
The justifications in Trump’s orders seem to be “pushing on a few doors to get around notice and comment procedures just to see which door, if any, the courts allow to open,” Reed Shaw, an attorney with the left-leaning Governing for Impact, told NOTUS.
“There are these three discrete exceptions to notice and comment requirements under the [Administrative Procedure Act] that the administration is now applying incredibly broadly to try to remove a bunch of subjects from notice and comment,” said John Lewis, also at Governing for Impact, pointing to similar recent actions by Health and Human Services and the State Department to circumvent public input requirements.
The Guardian: Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’
The report noted a corresponding push in at least 30 mostly Republican-controlled states to weaken workplace protections for children, and warned the second Trump administration would seek to escalate the rollback.