Judge Amy Berman Jackson said that court intervention was ‘extraordinary’ but necessary and that the administration disregarded Congress’s intent.
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on March 28 preventing the Trump administration from continuing what she described as a shutdown of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
“If the defendants are not enjoined, they will eliminate the agency before the Court has the opportunity to decide whether the law permits them to do it, and … the harm will be irreparable,” U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote in an opinion.
Jackson said that court intervention was “extraordinary” but necessary and that the administration disregarded Congress’s intent.
Her order requires the administration to reinstate all probationary and term employees terminated since Feb. 10 and prevents further terminations with some exceptions. It prohibits the administration from enforcing a stop-work order and requires it to maintain a website, hotline, and database of consumer complaints, as well as to respond to those complaints.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
