President Donald Trump's administration was back in court Monday to justify its actions in dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The union representing CFPB workers sued to stop the bureau from being shut down as part of Trump's government-wide cuts.

A judge appointed by former President Barack Obama has voted to allow President Donald Trump to fire a special counsel while an appeal court is considering the case. Trump fired special counsel Hampton Dellinger,

With a possible Supreme Court showdown lurking, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday weighed whether she should toss another lifeline to Biden ethics enforcer Hampton Dellinger. The post ‘We’re in some other world now’: Judge calls out Trump DOJ for running to SCOTUS over ‘unappealable TRO’ and asks if ‘only what the current president wants’ is law now first appeared on Law & Crime.

A judge directed pointed questions on Monday at the Trump administration about whether its decision to halt most activity within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau violated the law. Judge Amy Berman Jackson expressed concern that acting Director Russ Vought's orders to stop activity at the CFPB,

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our ... U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who was nominated to the bench by Democratic President Barack ...

A judge declared President Donald Trump's firing of the head of a federal watchdog agency illegal in an early test of the scope of presidential power.