Emails and testimonials from workers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau document the administration’s efforts to lay off 90 percent of the employees.

Business groups want the justices to put a stop to overly broad class actions that include people without injuries. But a group of scholars have identified a procedural flaw that could derail a ruling in the case currently set to be heard this month.

A federal judge temporarily barred the Trump administration from laying off roughly 90 percent of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as she mulls whether it violates her previous order…

The agency fired 1,500 workers on Thursday, which violates a court order and threatens a meltdown of mortgage markets and more.

The justices are revisiting “Humphrey’s Executor,” a decision barring presidents from firing certain federal officials for purely political reasons.

No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue

A federal appeals court on Monday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump from removing Democratic members from two federal labor boards, setting aside its earlier ruling.

Eva Steege, 83, tried for years to pay off her student debt. The Trump administration slashed the agency helping her, so she sued while in hospice care.

The president has attacked law firms for “frivolous” litigation. But his actions could undermine the basic right of Americans to sue their government.

The bureau has been in turmoil as the Trump administration moved to fire hundreds of employees, ordered the rest to stop working and closed offices.

Andrew Weissmann writes about the approach of Paul, Weiss chair and other law firms faced with Trump administration orders against the firms.

Court orders have paused, and at times reversed, the Trump administration’s efforts to shut down the consumer watchdog agency.

An employee tasked with implementing the firings of hundreds of staffers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau testified in court Tuesday that she believed the plan to dismantle the agency was s...

President Donald Trump's administration still plans to fire all workers at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, effectively neutralizing it, according to witness testimony delivered Tuesday.

The judge, who reinstated Gwynne Wilcox to the National Labor Relations Board, said Trump's "power to remove federal officers and honest civil servants ... is not absolute."

A federal judge on Wednesday questioned President Donald Trump's power to fire a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board and seemed deeply skeptical of the expansive theory of presidential power being put forward by his administration.

The Trump administration's decision to put the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on ice has left a $100 million pot of money intended for borrowers allegedly harmed by the student loan servicer Navient sitting in limbo, according to an advocacy organization.

A top official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau argues the administration is no longer trying to destroy the agency, while unions say Trump wants a "complete shutdown."

Declarations in a court case involving the union of the consumer protection agency detail a desire to whittle it down to “five men in a room.”

It’s not totally clear where CFPB data will end up.

The cancellation of nearly three-dozen cybersecurity contracts at the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau endangers the security of sensitive data maintained by the federal watchdog, a former seni...

“I was hoping we'd stay out of this kind of thing, but events have overtaken us,” said Gupta Wessler founder Deepak Gupta.