JUST IN: Federal Appeals Court Hands President Trump ANOTHER Big Win in 2-1 Decision

In the latest win for President Trump, a federal appeals court just cleared the way for Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to be dismantled!

In a 2-1 decision, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an injunction previously made by Obama Judge Amy Berman Jackson that prevented the Trump administration from restructuring and cleaning house at the CFPB.

Check it out:

🚨 BREAKING: The Trump administration just won in court again.

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals just lifted an Obama-appointed district court judge's injunction on the dismantling of Elizabeth Warren's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau pic.twitter.com/lUWFbuqajn

— CJ Pearson (@thecjpearson) August 15, 2025

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced:

Another victory for President Trump!

In a 2-1 ruling, the DC Circuit sided with my @TheJusticeDept attorneys in our effort to dismantle the CFPB and rein in crippling Obama-era regulations.

We will continue to pursue the President’s deregulation efforts.

— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) August 15, 2025

The CFPB is now free to right-size itself in accordance with the law to best serve the American people.

— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) August 15, 2025

Dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s brainchild, is something that President Trump has been wanting to do.

As you may have guessed, Pocahontas is seething right now.

Here’s how she responded to Bondi’s announcement:

The Attorney General saying the quiet part out loud: The Trump Administration's intent is to illegally "dismantle" an agency that has returned $21 billion to Americans scammed by Wall Street.

Her victory lap shows how ridiculous the court’s decision was. No one else is fooled. https://t.co/cXEeOwwJgI

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) August 15, 2025

Earlier this year, he fired its Director, Biden holdover Rohit Chopra who notoriously threatened financial institutions that refused to grant loans and credit lines to illegal immigrants.

President Trump appointed Russell Vought as acting directior, who ramped up efforts to dismantle the Bureau.

But then, his efforts were blocked by a rogue Obama-appointed judge.

The Hill provided some background:

The CFPB became an early target of former White House aide Elon Musk as the Department of Government Efficiency sought to reshape the federal bureaucracy, agency by agency.

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought was tapped by Trump to serve as CFPB’s acting director, where he quickly looked to dismantle the agency that was established following the 2008 financial crisis.

Vought stopped the CFPB from drawing down more funding and took other drastic steps, including issuing stop work orders, canceling the lease of the agency’s headquarters and planning mass layoffs…

In March, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson barred the administration from moving forward and required that fired employees be reinstated. She also ordered some cancelled contracts be restored.

The judge’s ruling came in response to a lawsuit brought by two unions that represent CFPB employees, the National Treasury Employees Union and the CFPB Employee Association. They sued alongside the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Consumer Law Center and the Virginia Poverty Law Center, which use CFPB’s services.

The appeals court order today reverses that ruling, allowing President Trump to carry out mass layoffs at the Bureau.

A divided federal appeals court Friday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to resume mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. pic.twitter.com/lyCOZ8R1qr

— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) August 15, 2025

Politico has more details on the ruling:

The 2-1 ruling, authored by Judge Gregory Katsas, said a series of legal defects in the lawsuit brought by CFPB employees and the NAACP doomed the case and required the district court judge’s blockade to be lifted.

Katsas, a Trump appointee, said the fatal flaw was the broad challenge against what the employees described as a master plan to shutter the agency altogether. While individual layoffs or contract terminations may be challenged in court, Katsas wrote that the sweeping directive to close the agency — alleged in the lawsuit — was not something the courts could review, particularly because it was unclear that the administration had made a final decision to carry out the closure.

“The plaintiffs seek to set aside an abstract decision, inferred from a constellation of discrete actions, to prophylactically ensure that the Bureau can fulfill its statutory mandate,” Katsas wrote. “If the plaintiffs’ theory were viable, it would become the task of the judiciary, rather than the Executive Branch, to determine what resources an agency needs to perform its broad statutory functions.”

Katsas was joined in the decision by Judge Neomi Rao, another Trump appointee. Judge Cornelia Pillard, an Obama appointee, dissented. The decision may be appealed to the full bench of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals or to the Supreme Court.

The ruling is a hard-won victory for the Trump administration after losing repeated rounds in court since March. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee, found that the administration had been attempting to unlawfully shutter the CFPB and blocked the large-scale dismantling, finding that the agency had been unable to perform legally required tasks.