President Donald Trump presented an emergency appeal before the Supreme Court of the United States that seeks to maintain an order of the lower court temporarily blocking the elimination of Lisa Cook as governor at the Federal Reserve Board.
General lawyer John Sauer argues in the name of the administration that the lower courts have no authority to guess the president’s judgment on what constitutes “cause” for his removal, as the federal law allowed.
The Government insists that the accusations that Cook was dedicated to mortgage fraud, before its appointment and confirmation to the Fed, constitute sufficient reasons for the president’s decision, and that Cook has no right to any due process as an presidential designated.
The governor of the Federal Reserve, Lisa Cook, attends Jackson Hole’s economic symposium in the city of the Kansas Federal Reserve in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 23, 2025.
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“In a nutshell, the president can reasonably determine that the interest rates paid by the US people should not be established by a governor who seems to have lied about the material of facts to the interest rates he obtained for themselves, and refuses to explain the apparent misrepresentations,” Sauer wrote.
Cook, through a lawyer, has denied any irregularity. She has not publicly explained apparent discrepancies on publicly available mortgage documents that list two personal homes as “main” residences.
The administration also cites other recent decisions of the Supreme Court that defend, interimly, the dismissal of the president of the members of independent agencies during the processing of the dispute over the merits, which could take up to two years.
The court is likely to seek a cook response before making a decision on whether to intervene in the case.
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