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Out of the Separation-of-Powers Frying Pan and Into the Nondelegation Fire: How the Court’s Decision in Seila Law Makes CFPB’s Unlawful Structure Even Worse
Markham S. Chenoweth
Michael P. DeGrandis
Markham S. Chenoweth & Michael P. DeGrandis are General Counsel and Senior Litigation Counsel, respectively, at the New Civil Liberties Alliance.

NCLA filed an amicus curiae brief on the prevailing side in Seila Law.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 29, 2020 decision in Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fixed a glaring constitutional defect in the way Congress structured the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau).

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Constitutionalizing Financial Instability
Patricia A. McCoy
Patricia A. McCoy is the Liberty Mutual Insurance Professor at Boston College Law School. Professor McCoy previously was a senior official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

In the last Supreme Court term, the Court ruled in Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that Article II of the U.S. Constitution and separation of powers prohibit Congress from shielding the Bureau’s director from termination except for cause. More troubling, Seila Law could open up the financial system to destabilization by paving the path for a full-scale assault on the traditional independence of federal financial regulators and presidential manipulation of the economy.

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