One of the reasons the impending D.C. Circuit confirmation battles are so important is that the court has played, and will continue to play, a big role in Dodd-Frank implementation. The court has jurisdiction over a wide variety of regulatory agency decisions, and as Haley Sweetland Edwards at the Washington Monthly has explained, it’s already used that power to weaken trading restrictions that Dodd-Frank authorized.
via Dodd-Frank isn’t close to implemented.
