Judge Warns Vought of Contempt Order If He Back-Door Shuts Down CFPB

Vought has claimed that the Federal Reserve has no "combined earnings" this year, therefore it cannot give CFPB money. Judge Amy Berman Jackson shot that down. In an order issued today, a federal judge in Washington clarified that any effort by Acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) director Russell Vought to allow funding to lapse…