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The Checks and Balances Letter delivers news and information from Ballotpedia’s Administrative State Project, including pivotal actions at the federal and state levels related to the separation of powers, due process, and the rule of law.

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Second Circuit weighs in on CFPB funding structure

Ballotpedia

Protect consumers by safeguarding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

It’s important the U.S. Supreme Court puts aside its politics and gets a ruling right on a case challenging the CFPB.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Congress Should Not Give Any Government Agency Financial Free Rein

Lawmakers should proactively retake the power of the purse from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, regardless of how the Supreme Court rules.

Reason

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Supreme Court to decide fate of Obama-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Tribune News Service

Supreme Court to hear case that threatens existence of consumer protection agency

At issue is how the CFPB is funded: It gets its money from the Federal Reserve, which in turn is funded by bank fees, and not through congressional appropriations.

WEKU

Supreme Court to decide fate of Obama-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide on the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created in the wake of the 2008 Wall Street collapse and funded directly by the Federal Reserve.

Los Angeles Times

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Supreme Court will consider constitutionality of CFPB

This case may be the most serious challenge yet to the decade-plus-old agency.

Axios

Supreme Court to decide case over consumer agency funding - Roll Call

The Supreme Court will decide a case that challenges the way Congress chose to fund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Roll Call

Miss a credit card payment? Federal regulators want to put new limits on late fees

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to cap late fees at $8. Banking groups say the proposal would result in higher costs for consumers.

WEKU

White House directs FTC, CFPB to probe housing rental market practices

Landlords will face greater federal scrutiny from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Federal Trade Commission and other agencies amid rapidly rising rents under a plan that President Joe Biden released Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

White House directs FTC, CFPB to probe housing rental market practices - Roll Call

The White House has directed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission to examine the housing rental market.

Roll Call

Michael Hiltzik: Wells Fargo got slammed with a $3.7-billion penalty. So why doesn't it sound sorry?

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau left very little unsaid when it announced, a few days before Christmas, $3.7 billion in assessments against Wells Fargo Bank for more than a decade of legal violations harming its millions of customers.

Los Angeles Times

Upended: How medical debt changed their lives

Some lost their homes. Some emptied their retirement accounts. Some struggled to feed and clothe their families. Medical debt now touches more than 100 million people in America, as the U.S. health care system pushes patients into debt on a mass scale. Debtors are from all walks of life and…

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WEKU

Wells Fargo to pay $3.7 billion settling charges it wrongfully seized homes and cars

The case marks the largest penalty ever imposed by the federal watchdog agency the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Customers who were harmed will receive $2 billion in restitution.

The Times of India

Wells Fargo to pay $3.7 billion for mistreating customers

NEW YORK: Wells Fargo Co agreed to a $3.7 billion settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to settle a variety of allegations of mistreating customers, including a $1.7 billion fine that’s the biggest in CFPB history.

The Conversation

Buying gifts? Why ‘buy now, pay later’ could be a dangerous option for many holiday shoppers

Gift-givers hoping to splurge this holiday season despite the pinch of high inflation have an easy option: buy now, pay later.

Fortune

The Fair Credit Reporting Act: What it is and how it protects you

The Fair Credit Reporting Act protects the accuracy and privacy of the information in your credit file.

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The Independent UK

Millennial Money: How credit can beat buy now, pay later

With rising costs of goods and services, turning to “buy now, pay later” plans when you check out can be tempting

Chicago Sun-Times

Closed accounts, no money: Chime app users complain they were suddenly shut out of their online accounts

Consumers have filed hundreds of complaints saying accounts with the popular fintech app were closed without warning. The company says it can close them “for any reason or no reason.”

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Checks and Balances November 2022

Tribune News Service

Appellate ruling may force another Supreme Court look at CFPB

WASHINGTON — An appeals court ruling that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding structure is unconstitutional raises the stakes in a long battle over the agency, potentially setting the stage for a test the Supreme Court sidestepped only two years ago when it declined to find the entire agency unconstitutional.

Tribune News Service

Noah Feldman: Conservative attack on consumer protection wins an illogical victory

Conservatives have never liked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the brainchild of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Now a conservative panel of the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has struck down the CFPB’s rulemaking authority using a novel theory.

Reason

Why the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Funding Structure Is Unconstitutional

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is right to notice that the CFPB is unique even among federal agencies that don't get their funding from Congress.

WEKU

Appeals court says financial watchdog agency CFPB's structure is unconstitutional

Three federal appeals court judges appointed by President Trump have ruled that the funding structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutional.

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