Supreme Court weighs giving presidents more power over semi-independent agencies
by David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times
Mar 03, 2020
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court appeared uncertain Tuesday about whether to give President Donald Trump and future presidents more power to fire the heads of semi-independent agencies, including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created in the wake of the Great Recession.
The consumer agency was created by the Democratic-controlled Congress in 2010. To insulate it from political pressure, the Dodd-Frank Act said the director would be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate to "serve for
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