It's 2017. And the obvious occasionally needs to be stated to the left. Which will then do its best to ignore the actual law.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's top lawyer sided with the Justice Department over President Donald Trump's appointment of Mick Mulvaney to lead the CFPB as a leadership battle over the controversial watchdog agency escalated.
In a memorandum obtained by POLITICO, CFPB general counsel Mary McLeod said Trump had the legal authority to name an acting director to the bureau under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act.
"It is my legal opinion that the president possesses the authority to designate an acting director for the bureau," McLeod wrote in the Nov. 25 memo to the CFPB leadership team. "I advise all bureau personnel to act consistently with the understanding that Director Mulvaney is the acting director of the CFPB."
And good luck with that.
You can bet that the #resistance in the CFPB will instead answer to Leandra English, who was appointed by President Richard Cordray, the leader of the breakaway socialist republic of Washington D.C.,
The official CFPB site lists Leandra English, instead of Director Mulvaney.
So we've got a Federal agency in rebellion against the President of the United States... and the advice of its own counsel. But they're sure to find Obama or Clinton judges who will back their rebellion. And the media will of course back English and Cordray. The Supreme Court will eventually rule the right away. As it did on the NLRB. But by then, the CFPB, like the NLRB, will have gotten a whole bunch of things done. And further lawsuits will be required to invalidate them.
All this was business as usual under Obama Inc. But it amounts to yet another instance of leftist secessionism. And it's snowballing into a national crisis.