Trump Appeals Order Blocking Him From Firing Fed Governor Cook

President Donald Trump on Wednesday appealed a federal judge’s order that prevented him from firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, escalating a legal fight over the president’s power to reshape the central bank.

The appeal, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, came a day after U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb issued an injunction allowing Cook to remain on the Fed’s seven-member board while her lawsuit proceeds. The case marks the first challenge to a president’s attempt to remove a Fed governor in the central bank’s 111-year history.

Judge Cobb, a Biden appointee, ruled that Cook was “substantially likely”…

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