AFFIL and Partners ask Obama Administration to Reverse Bush Position on Preemption

Press Release (PDF)Excerpt from the letter:

The undersigned consumer and civil-rights organizations write to join the request by Consumers Union that you reverse the former Bush Administration’s position in the brief the United States will file in the United States Supreme Court on March 25, 2009, in Cuomo v. The Clearing House Association, L.L.C. and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, No. 08-453. We urge you to stand on the side of consumers, workers, and consumer protection, not the banks and predatory lending.