LexisNexis ( August 19, 2020, 10:11 AM EDT) -- Since the Dodd-Frank Act created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in 2008, a shadow has hung over the agency. Dodd-Frank implemented a unique structure for the CFPB consisting of a single director insulated from the executive power of the President because he or she is only removable "for cause." CFPB's critics attacked this single-director structure as unconstitutional. Under the separation of powers doctrine, they argued, the President must retain the unconditional power to remove the director as a matter of discretion, or "at will." For its detractors, disbanding the CFPB became their mission. Under that scenario, the unconstitutional for-cause removal rule for the agency's director would render the whole agency illegitimate....