Judges on a federal appeals court panel yesterday appeared hesitant to overrule President Trump and install the deputy director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as the agency's temporary leader, the Los Angeles Times reported. But two of the three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit indicated they had a problem with the person Trump selected to take the position, Mick Mulvaney, because he also heads the White House Office of Management and Budget. The 2010 law that created the bureau as an independent federal agency specifically said OMB should not have oversight or jurisdiction over it. That raised the possibility that the legal battle over the future of the watchdog agency could end with Mulvaney's removal as acting director — a move that would be cheered by Democrats and consumer advocates who have complained about his public opposition to the bureau's existence.
