Pro-business Supreme Court shouldn't defang Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

The Supreme Court hears a case Tuesday about whether the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's structure as an independent agency with a single director is unconstitutional. That may seem like a narrow and technical issue, but it raises the fundamental question before us in the 2020 election: can we make our government work for the people?

In 2007, I came up with the idea for the CFPB — a new federal agency dedicated to protecting families from predatory financial products and holding financial firms accountable for cheating consumers. I had spent...