{"id":269892,"date":"2025-10-01T19:02:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/269892\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T19:02:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:02:16","slug":"supreme-court-allows-the-feds-lisa-cook-to-stay-in-office-for-now-as-trump-pushes-to-fire-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/269892\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court allows the Fed’s Lisa Cook to stay in office for now as Trump pushes to fire her"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 The Supreme Court on Wednesday deferred action on whether President Donald Trump can immediately fire Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook, instead agreeing to hear oral arguments in the case early next year.<\/p>\n

The move means that Cook can remain in office while the consequential legal question is decided. The court will hear oral arguments in January, the brief order said, with a ruling likely before the end of June.<\/p>\n

Trump had asked the court to allow him to immediately fire Cook while litigation continued in lower courts. The court\u2019s move indicates that there was not a majority to grant that request, at least for now.<\/p>\n

Under the Federal Reserve Act, presidents are restricted from removing governors unless it is \u201cfor cause,\u201d meaning there is evidence of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

Trump has said he fired Cook for cause, over allegations of mortgage fraud made by one of his political appointees, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte. Cook has denied the allegations, and bank documents obtained by NBC News appear to contradict the fraud claim.<\/p>\n

Since taking office in January, Trump has pushed for lower interest rates and had criticized the Fed for failing to act on his wishes.<\/p>\n

In a statement after Wednesday\u2019s news, the White House maintained that Trump \u201clawfully removed Lisa Cook for cause,\u201d and said, \u201cWe look forward to ultimate victory after presenting our oral arguments before the Supreme Court in January.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cook\u2019s lawyers, Abbe Lowell and Norm Eisen, said in a statement that Wednesday\u2019s \u201cdecision rightly allows Governor Cook to continue in her role on the Federal Reserve Board, and we look forward to further proceedings consistent with the Court\u2019s order.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the president\u2019s aggressive use of executive power has often led to setbacks in lower courts, the Supreme Court has regularly granted the administration\u2019s emergency requests that allow his policies to move forward.<\/p>\n

In seeking to put his stamp on the Federal Reserve, Trump has already appointed one of his advisers, Stephen Miran, to serve as a Fed governor. Next year, he will be able to appoint a new chair when Jerome Powell\u2019s term in that role expires.<\/p>\n

On Sept. 17, the Fed announced its first rate cut of the year<\/a>, which Cook voted for.<\/p>\n

Trump moved to fire Cook in late August, prompting her to file a federal lawsuit. Cook had argued that Trump did not have the authority to remove her from office while she challenged his decision in court. Lower courts ruled in her favor<\/a>, leading to Trump rushing to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has also sought to exert greater power over other hitherto independent federal agencies by firing various officials.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court has allowed such moves and taken up a case on the issue<\/a> that will be argued in December.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Lawrence Hurley<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

Lawrence Hurley is a senior Supreme Court reporter for NBC News. <\/p>\n

Steve Kopack and Monica Alba contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 The Supreme Court on Wednesday deferred action on whether President Donald Trump can immediately fire Federal…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":269893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[50,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-269892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115300465459861095","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}