WASHINGTON, D. C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine today filed a second friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the District and 17 other states in a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s decision to appoint Mick Mulvaney as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The brief, in Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union v. Trump, argues that maintaining CFPB’s independence is crucial to protecting consumers, and that Congress ensured this independence by creating a specific plan for succession.