AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton expressed his hope that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit will strike down the structure of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as unconstitutional after hearing arguments today in the case. Last July, he filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the 5th Circuit as the leader of a 14-state coalition challenging the CFPB’s constitutionality. “The CFPB has so much power and so little accountability, it operates like a branch of […]
