Richard Cordray: “I think that enforcing the law fairly promotes economic freedom.”

The U.S. Supreme Court last June reaffirmed that disparate impact discrimination is the law of the land.

That is the law we are required to enforce. We will enforce it vigorously, and we believe to root out discrimination, which nobody supports, in any of these markets.

It is flatly against the law for a debt collector to threaten anyone, let alone a servicemember, with consequences that a debt collector has no ability to carry out.

Anything less than that is an abdication of the Director's responsibility to the Bureau and its employees.