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Warren-Created Agency That Targets Businesses, Accountable Only To Itself, Challenged in Supreme Court

Hank Berrien
Warren-Created Agency That Targets Businesses, Accountable Only To Itself, Challenged in Supreme Court
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Next week, the Supreme Court will start to hear oral arguments about a massive government agency (an idea originally proposed by Elizabeth Warren that now has roughly 1,500 employees) which can affect thousands of businesses across the country without being accountable to anyone but itself.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in its present form escapes the separation of powers enumerated in the Constitution and holds power to destroy businesses at will. As Oliver Dunford of the Pacific Legal Foundation wrote last October in The Hill:

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