After approximately seven months waging a legal battle for control of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that began once former Director Richard Cordray resigned from the bureau, the official he tapped to take his place has announced her own resignation.
English filed suit against the president and Mick Mulvaney shortly after Mulvaney’s appointment as the bureau’s acting director, arguing that, as deputy director, she was the rightful interim leader of the CFPB per the Dodd-Frank Act.
Read on to find out more details about her decision and the case.