Judge blocks restraining order that would block Trump's pick for CFPB

Finally, the Trump administration scored a victory against ridiculous political theater. 

The temporary restraining order to stop President Trump's pick for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Mick Mulvaney, has been denied by a judge Tuesday afternoon.

Judge Timothy Kelly ruled in favor of the president in his effort to appoint White House budget director Mulvaney to temporarily head the bureau, the nation's unaccountable yet main financial watchdog agency.

Leandra English was appointed by outgoing director, Dick Cordray, a Barack Obama appointee.

English filed a lawsuit against the president and Mulvaney because she wanted the job but Trump wanted an ally.

English showed up for the job as if it was hers but so did Mulvaney who made it clear that he was the boss and offered his staff Dunkin Donuts. The Cordray appointee came empty-handed so she didn't stand a chance. 

The suit filed by English requested a declaratory judgment and a temporary restraining order to block Mulvaney from taking over the agency. She cited the Dodd-Frank Act, which created the CFPB, an organization that might be unconstitutional according to some experts.

English said that as deputy director, she became the acting director under the law and argued that the federal law the Trump administration says supports the president's appointment of Mulvaney doesn't apply when another statute designates a successor.

Mulvaney has correctly called the agency a "joke" and an example of a bureaucracy run amok.

As an interim director, Mulvaney is expected to clean up the mess this bureau has become. A new director for the CFPB needs to be confirmed by the Senate.


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