The majority decision in Seila Law vs. CFPB finding the agency’s single-director, for-cause only removal structure to be unconstitutional was an abuse of the court’s power, Justice Elena Kagan argued in her dissenting opinion.
“In reversing course today — in spurning a ‘pragmatic, flexible approach to American governance’ in favor of a dogmatic, inflexible one, the majority makes a serious error,” Kagan wrote.
Read on for more highlights of Kagan’s dissent, which was joined by justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor.
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