A federal district court yesterday halted the Administration's dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau pending further litigation and ordered that the Administration "reinstat[e] and preserv[e] the agency's contracts, work force, data, and operational capacity, and protect[] and facilitat[e] the employees' ability to perform statutorily required activities."
The lengthy and thorough ruling included a forceful rebuke of the Administration's efforts to dismantle the CFPB and the Administration's efforts to mislead the court into believing that it wasn't, in fact, dismantling the agency.
The court's order is a preliminary injunction, which means that the Administration can appeal it (and almost surely will).
The court ruled that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed in their claims that the Administration exceeded its authority under the Constitution and violated the Administrative Procedure Act. In short, on both claims the court said that Congress created the CFPB and required that it perform certain functions, and that the Executive Branch can't unilaterally undo that congressional design.
The full docket in the case, National Treasury Employees Union v. Vought, is here.