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Reuters: U.S. Consumer Agency Seeks Full Court Review of Ruling Against Its Structure
“This is an important first step in the fight to overturn the court’s reckless, politically motivated decision that was designed to cripple the CFPB,” said Karl Frisch, executive director at Allied Progress, which has lobbied the bureau to tighten regulation of the payday lending industry.
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The Hill: CFPB Asks Full Court to Rehear Constitutionality Case
Allied Progress, a nonprofit research organization, called CFPB’s request Friday an “important first step in the fight to overturn the court’s reckless ruling.”
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Group Backs CFPB Push for Panel Ruling in Politically Motivated Case Cheered by Wall Street
CFPB seeks to uphold historic consumer protections, reverse ruling of D.C. Circuit Court of appeals by Republican-appointed three-judge panel.
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CBS News: Wall Street Vet Atop Treasury Could Test Trump’s Populism
“The draining is currently clogged, apparently,” said Karl Frisch, executive director of Allied Progress, a left-leaning grassroots organization. Mnuchin’s appointment would “run contrary to the message he campaigned on.”
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Fast Company: Trump’s Transition Team Is Not Quite “Drain the Swamp”
Karl Frisch, executive director of Allied Progress, said, “It’s hard to fight the ‘rigged’ system when you fill your administration with the very individuals complicit in the rigging. President-elect Trump promised millions of angry Americans that Washington would be different under his leadership. He decried the influence of big banks, Wall Street fat cats, and powerful special interests. Now it appears he’s offering them room-and-board in the White House. If these leaked reports are to be believed, the swamp’s drain is obviously clogged.”
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McClatchy: Possible Trump Treasury Pick Is Accused of Deepening California’s Foreclosure Crisis
“We will hold him accountable if he abandons his call for real change and instead favors the powerful special interests he lambasted on the campaign trail,” said Karl Frisch of the left-leaning advocacy group Allied Progress.
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Trump Must Keep His Promise: Reject Big Banks, Wall Street, and Powerful Special Interests
Allied Progress will make certain President-elect Trump keeps his word to protect hard working Americans from powerful special interests.
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The Daily Tar Heel: North Carolina NAACP Files Lawsuit Claiming State Suppresses Voters
Karl Frisch, executive director of Allied Progress, said he thinks there are good Republicans and Democrats, both of which can administer free and fair elections. “But when an election official expresses a partisan motivation for changes to the system, whether it’s in how the election will be administered or what they’re going to do with early voting or what they’re going to do with voter registration — that’s when it becomes problematic,” he said.
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Group Calls on North Carolina’s Top Election Official to Investigate Partisanship, Racial Animus in Election Administration
Damning new report details partisan, racially charged motivations of those pushing voter suppression and administering elections in North Carolina.
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Group Calls on Pennsylvania’s Top Election Official to Investigate Partisanship, Racial Animus in Election Administration
Damning new report details partisan, racially charged motivations of those pushing voter suppression and administering elections in Pennsylvania.