(Alex Brandon, File/Associated Press)A court fight could be brewing over President Donald Trump’s move to name an interim head of a consumer protection agency despite the departing director appointing a deputy to temporarily fill that spot. Trump’s choice as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is his budget chief, Mick Mulvaney, a former congressman who’s called the agency a “joke,” an example of bureaucracy run amok. Cordray, an Obama appointee long criticized by congressional Republicans as overzealous, submitted his resignation Friday and elevated chief of staff Leandra English into the deputy director position. In tapping English, Cordray relied on the Dodd-Frank Act, which created the agency, for the chain of succession. That law says that “when the director steps aside, the deputy director shall be in charge of the agency — not may, shall be in charge,” said Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the No.

Source: Washington Post November 26, 2017 01:30 UTC