Lev Menand
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Odd Lots · The Fight Over Fed Independence Just Got Taken To a Whole New Level · 12 Jan 2026
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Oral argument in the dispute over whether President Trump's efforts to terminate Lisa Cook, you know, last year were legally adequate.
Right now, the courts have kept her in her job.
So he was not actually able to fire her, uh, but he's still moving to do it, and the Supreme Court's gonna weigh in on whether he can in a matter of days.
This is not a similar action against Powell.
Trump has
Trump has not at this point attempted to remove him from office under the statute.
This is an attempt to basically bully him out of office using the Department of Justice, which is a very different thing.
You know, the his his liberty is threatened, you know.
It it it's not just that he could lose his job, it's that he could go to jail.
And I can't think of any analog in the history of
uh uh uh of the US central bank or any, you know, US agency to this sort of action by an administration aga against a a member uh of the government, an official in the government.
once.
I think that's right.
It's it's it's like well, maybe let's try to tease out some of the different things that are going on here.
One is that Pal is still serving as chair and his term runs until May.
And Trump has been clear that he would like to replace Powell as chair and that he has in fact identified who he wants in that job.
And so, on one level, this may be about getting PAL to step down before May so that he can be replaced, you know, months earlier.
I agree with you.
Uh that doesn't seem like uh justification for this.
Sort of escalation on its own.
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