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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Two Worthy Cases at the Supreme Court This Week

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The Justices begin their new term by reviewing whether the unaccountable funding mechanism used by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, is also unconstitutional. Plus, does a "tester" plaintiff under the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA, have standing to sue hotels and inns that she never plans to visit? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.2

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0:09.4

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0:18.4

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0:27.0

Take on autumn with patty for low.

0:30.1

From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:39.6

The Supreme Court kicks off its new term with a big case on the constitutionality

0:44.4

of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as well as an argument about so-called

0:49.1

Tester lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

0:52.8

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my colleagues,

0:58.2

columnists Alicia Finley and Kim Strassel. Welcome to you both.

1:02.4

The case being heard in oral argument on Tuesday was Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,

1:07.4

the Community Financial Services Association of America. That is a mouthful.

1:13.3

But the basic argument is whether the funding scheme set up by the CFPB

1:18.8

violates the appropriations clause of the US Constitution, Article 1, which says,

1:24.3

no money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law.

1:31.2

And Alicia, I wonder if you can help flesh this out a little bit.

1:34.8

Give us a sense of what the stakes are, the background of this case,

1:37.8

and what the arguments made by each side seem to be.

1:40.4

So we're called back in 2010, Democrats passed the Dodd-Frank Act, which set up the CFPB,

1:46.6

and really the godmother of this law or the CFPB was Elizabeth Warren.

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