Judge pauses mass firings at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as she considers whether layoffs violated court order

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CNN  —  A federal judge paused the Trump administration’s efforts to lay off nearly 1,500 of the 1,700 employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as she considers whether the mass firing violated a court order halting the dismantling of the agency. Judge Amy Berman Jackson will scrutinize the layoffs with an evidentiary hearing on April 28, during which there would be witness testimony, she said at an emergency hearing called Friday morning. She is ordering the administration to turn