Noah Feldman, Columnist

The Constitution Is on Trump's Side in CFPB Fight

An Obama appointee's lawsuit to lead the bank-watchdog agency isn't the way to challenge executive overreach.

November 27, 2017 at 1:14 PM UTC

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."

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Suits against President Donald Trump for abuse of executive power are an important tool for preserving the republic. But the newly filed suit by Democratic appointee Leandra English for the right to serve as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is not helping the cause.

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