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Another day, another activist judge: Trump blocked from firing CFPB employees

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An Obama judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from firing Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) employees.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, a leftist Obama appointee, temporarily blocked the CFPB from firing employees unless they’ve been underperforming or engaging in misconduct.

Berman also ordered the Trump administration to abstain from destroying any of the agency’s data.

And finally, Berman blocked acting CFPB Director Russ Vought from defunding the agency.

Berman’s decision came after the National Treasury Employees Union, the NAACP, and a few consumer groups filed suit asking for an emergency injunction because of reports Vought intended to start mass firing employees as early as Friday.

The suit also included a court declaration from former CFPB technology chief Erie Meyer claiming that the Trump administration was also intent on destroying the agency’s data.

“Public reporting and reports that I have received from within the Bureau reliably indicate that databases holding the CFPB’s data will soon be deleted,” she wrote.

“I am preparing this declaration to ensure that the Court is aware of the imminent risk that twelve years’ of critical CFPB records, which belong to the public, will be irretrievably lost and cause serious and sweeping damage unless the Court takes action to preserve the status quo in the face of efforts to dismantle the CFPB,” she added.

The suit was filed after the Trump administration began dismantling the CFPB, a leftist-run agency guilty of imposing overburdensome regulations on businesses left and right.

“On Thursday night, roughly 100 CFPB career employees who were employed for a fixed term received termination notices,” Politico notes. “Earlier this week, the Trump administration fired more than 70 CFPB employees who were still in a probationary period.”

The administration also halted all of the agency’s work, shut down pending investigations, and installed safeguards preventing the agency from continuing to surveil financial institutions like banks.

Judge Jackson is the same judge who oversaw the cases of Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, and Rick Gates. She also dismissed a wrongful Benghazi-related death claim against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2017.

“A federal judge in Washington D.C. … tossed out a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton that alleged negligence in her email security was the cause of two Americans’ deaths in the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya,” The Hill reported at the time.

“U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, appointed by former President Obama in 2010, concluded that Clinton used her email in the course of her official duties and dismissed the wrongful death portion of the suit on technical grounds,” the reporting continued.

As for the CFPB, it was and has always been a leftist agency imposing leftist values and regulations on businesses and banks.

“Under [Biden-era director] Rohit Chopra, the CFPB wasn’t just a regulator—it was a weaponized arm of progressive financial activism,” according to Breitbart. “Instead of issuing clear, predictable rules, Chopra governed by fear, using media pressure, lawsuits, and vague legal interpretations to force compliance with his ideological agenda.”

“One of Chopra’s most controversial tactics was his habit of bypassing formal rulemaking entirely and instead announcing policy changes through press releases and enforcement actions. By avoiding the legal process of writing new regulations—which requires public input and legal justification—he made it impossible for banks, lenders, and fintech companies to comply in advance. The result was a regulatory environment driven more by intimidation than by law,” Breitbart notes.

Chopra’s termination earlier this month by President Donald Trump was widely celebrated.

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