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The U.S. Supreme Court held in the 2020 case Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that an independent agency cannot be headed by a single director with cause removal protections.

In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled that the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an independent agency that exercised executive powers and had a director protected from at-will termination by the president, was unconstitutional. The majority held that restrictions on the president's ability to remove such agency leaders violated the separation of powers principles by limiting presidential control of executive power.


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