. It is appropriate that we ended our last post with Jarkesy . For without much effort, that can be seen as part of a push by the majority of this court to put the whole regulatory apparatus on a defensive jurisprudential footing. There is some combination here of social darwinism and a fear of the hidden rulers behind the superficial state consisting of well-known politicians. MAGA as a political movement is an effort to weaponize the superficial against the deep. Beyond Jarkesy there is the CFPB case, and there is Loper Bright , the case that has finally overturned Chevron. I would like to focus especially now on : Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, aka the CFPB case, published in mid May. CFPB was a loss for the cause of dismantling administrative agencies. A win for the deep state, if you will. It is not always clear what the word "consumer" means in the financial worl...