A US judge has issued a ruling blocking the Trump administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, preventing the president’s decimation of the watchdog agency. The ruling maintains the agency’s existence as the court considers a lawsuit seeking to save the CFPB. The judge ordered the CFPB to maintain operations, including a hotline for consumer complaints, and provide office space for employees. The CFPB had faced mass terminations and chaos after Trump fired the bureau’s director and ordered operations to be suspended.
In other news, the Wisconsin attorney general is seeking to block Elon Musk’s $1 million check giveaways to influence a critical state supreme court race. Musk had planned to give $2 million to voters but is now being challenged over the purpose of the donations. Similarly, a US judge ordered a halt to swift deportations under a 200-year-old wartime law, preventing immigrants from being deported without proper hearings.
Additionally, Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyers are urging for his release and criticizing his treatment as a political prisoner. The US is also pausing contributions to the World Trade Organization, and Trump is emphasizing the need for control over Greenland for world peace. The State Department is reorganizing USAID, while the Trump administration is seeking to lift restrictions on deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. The administration has also reached a deal with the law firm Skadden to provide pro bono legal services to avoid executive orders targeting attorneys challenging Trump’s priorities.
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