Supreme Court Blocks West Virginia Bid to Challenge CFPB Funding

The US Supreme Court denied a request from West Virginia and 26 other Republican attorneys general to make their own challenge to the CFPB’s funding mechanism at oral arguments this fall.

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey (R) and the other GOP states filed a petition in July seeking to divide the oral arguments in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association case. In their petition, the states’ attorneys general argued their expertise in consumer protection issues gives them “special understanding of how an unbounded CFPB can damage the consumer-financial markets—and impair the States’ own abilities to ...