{"id":135160,"date":"2017-10-24T16:25:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T22:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135160"},"modified":"2017-10-25T17:51:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T23:51:44","slug":"best-government-banking-money-can-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/24\/best-government-banking-money-can-buy.html","title":{"rendered":"Best government banking money can buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump Treasury Dept. has come out publicly against a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule that says a limited set of banks cannot use forced arbitration clauses to block class action suits against them. Because of course they did.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP members of the House have already passed a CRA resolution to undo the CFPB&#8217;s rule. The GOP leadership of the Senate is moving forward with its side of the CRA to finalize the rule&#8217;s appeal. Because why should anyone ever need to sue a bank, or band together in a class action against something untoward or fraudulent a bank has done. I mean, that sort of thing never happens, right?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/consumerist.com\/2017\/10\/23\/treasury-dept-says-you-shouldnt-have-the-right-to-sue-your-bank-or-credit-card-company\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/eMkeMaex-_-ITejMMetE6RiWl31E54yTK1oMJ8H4VR9a-q4An_FAgkAw4CeR-t4-RcBWYJoccHL_MIk0UARsSu-ziy-QfCPCgsK419oyflOLG1IRZAOjSuvrk20=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consumerist.com\/2017\/10\/23\/treasury-dept-says-you-shouldnt-have-the-right-to-sue-your-bank-or-credit-card-company\/\">Treasury Dept. Says You Shouldn\u2019t Have The Right To Sue Your Bank Or Credit Card Company<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nForget the Sixth Amendment, which guarantees the \u201cright to a speedy and public trial\u201d in criminal matters. And who needs that ancient Seventh Amendment and its fancy \u201cright of tri\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/ffuqsSEWQ3S\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump Treasury Dept. has come out publicly against a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule that says a limited set of banks cannot use forced arbitration clauses to block class action suits against them. Because of course they did. The GOP members of the House have already passed a CRA resolution to undo the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/24\/best-government-banking-money-can-buy.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best government banking money can buy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,350,715,528,77,374,1071],"tags":[1278,1277,1077],"class_list":["post-135160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-civil-liberties","category-crime-punishment","category-economic-justice","category-economy","category-money-politics","category-trump","tag-arbitration","tag-mnuchin","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mnuchin-trust-me.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133167,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/27\/tweetizen-trump-2017-03-27-jobs-health-rules.html","url_meta":{"origin":135160,"position":0},"title":"Tweetizen Trump &#8211; 2017-03-27 &quot;Jobs! 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