A case that could spell the end of a powerful, independent consumer protection agency is heading to the U.S. Supreme Court after justices granted the government’s request for certiorari as part of Monday’s orders list. 

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America‘s appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit saw a dispute over a 2017 payday lending rule turn into a question of whether the agency has the right to exist. Created as part of the Dodd-Frank Act passed in 2010, the CFPB has broad authority to regulate banks and other market actors, but it draws its funding from the Federal Reserve, which in turn draws its funding from bank user fees, a constitutional problem according to the circuit court. 

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