Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees will receive fewer protections from the Trump administration’s plan to dismantle the agency after a federal appeals panel partially stayed an order that had halted mass firings.
The March 28 injunction from Judge Amy Berman Jackson was an overly broad measure to address the administration’s planned reductions in force, and it should be narrowed so that the agency can terminate some employees during a lawsuit challenging the administration’s moves, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said in a late Friday order.
The appeals court lifted part of Jackson’s injunction that ...