Tag: Richard Cordray

Even by Trumpian standards, this one is really weird. This morning, two people are expected to walk into the offices of the Consumer Financial...

Every day the legal, cultural and public policy structures shaping the new legal-marijuana status quo expand. Doors long shut creak open. Messages from Colorado and Washington rush in.

CitizenLink, the Focus on the Family Christian news site based in Colorado Springs, weighed in Thursday on the latest political controversy winging out of Washington. The site reported that, in using "recess appointments" to fill three seats on the National Labor Relations Board and to place Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, President Obama had "stepped over a line and into history." The CitizenLink reporter then turned to Georg W. Bush justice department attorney John Yoo, the author of the notorious 2002 War on Terror "torture memos," to support the argument that the nation was witnessing a major unconstitutional power grab.