The Supreme Court again could be asked to rule on the extent of executive power after President Donald Trump announced he was removing Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor, from her position.
Trump on Monday posted a letter to Cook informing her of his decision to remove her from the Fed “for cause.” He previously had called on her to resign over an accusation from one of his officials that she committed mortgage fraud.
CNBC reported that Cook, in a statement, said, “President Trump purported to fire me ‘for cause’ when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so.”
Early last month, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that cleared the way for the Trump administration to fire federal workers, Axios reported. Liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined the conservative justices in the majority ruling.
Later in the month, the high court allowed the administration to remove three Democrat members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission who had been fired by Trump and then reinstated by a federal judge. The three liberal justices dissented.
In a May ruling that allowed Trump to fire members of independent federal agencies, the court said the Federal Reserve was a “uniquely structured, quasi-private entity” that has its own distinct historical tradition, NBC News reported.
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