AG Paxton West Virginia AG File 13-State Brief to Support President Trumps Action on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey today led a coalition of 13 states in filing a friend-of-the-court brief that supports President Trumps authority to appoint temporary leadership at the nations Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) until a permanent director is nominated and confirmed. In the brief filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Attorney General Paxton and his counterparts maintain that the presidents personnel move is fully authorized under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act.

Longstanding legal precedent supports the presidents designation of Mick Mulvaney as acting director of the CFPB and ensures a smooth transition of leadership at a rogue agency that has been operating all along as an unaccountable unauthorized separate branch of government Attorney General Paxton said

Last month the CFPBs director resigned and attempted to appoint his own successor who subsequently filed a lawsuit to block President Trumps temporary appointee. The 13-state coalition filed an amicus brief in that case and a U.S. District Court judge sided with the president. In her amended lawsuit against President Trump and Acting Director Mulvaney Obama-era CFPB holdover Leandra English claims that the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act which created the agency gave her former boss the power to let her take over as acting director. But the legality of President Trumps appointment of Mulvaney was confirmed by the White House counsels office the U.S. Department of Justice and the CFPBs own general counsel. Other state attorneys general who joined the Texas- and West Virginia-led brief are Alabama Arizona Arkansas Florida Georgia Kansas Louisiana Michigan Nebraska Oklahoma and South Carolina. In October Attorney General Paxton led a 12-state coalition that filed an amicus brief with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas challenging the constitutionality of the CFPB and its controversial Arbitration Rule which President Trump repealed on November 1 after it was revoked by Congress. View todays amicus brief here: http://bit.ly/2oCGFdI