The Supreme Court is making it easier for the president to fire the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The high court on Monday struck from the law that created the agency restrictions on when the president can remove the bureau’s director.

“The agency may … continue to operate, but its Director, in light of our decision, must be removable by the President at will,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote.

The decision doesn’t have a big impact on the current head of the agency. Kathy Kraninger, who was nominated to her current post by the president in 2018, had said she believed the president could fire her at any time. However, with the agency pushing changes to ability to repay standards in the QM rule and the GSE Patch, the decision raises questions whether those changes would be permanent if presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden beats President Donald Trump in the November election.

Supreme Court Makes It Easier for President to Remove CFPB Head

by The Associated Press time to read: 1 min
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