Lev Menand
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Jul
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And the president has pointed to none, and the White House has pointed to none.
Mostly what they're pointing to, and what this is gonna ultimately be a case about is their inherent constitutional authority as president, which is what the court has allowed the president to invoke in.
In a number of other instances, to ignore statutes, to ignore law and to trample on people's rights.
And so that's gonna be that's part of why also this is a big case, because this is not just a big case for the Federal Reserve.
It's also just a big case for the rule of law in our system and the extent to which we are a government of laws and not of people.
These are
Yeah, this is a very messy moment.
And so the initial clarification will come from the courts because presumably Lisa Cook's lawyers will seek a preliminary injunction, reinstating her from Federal District Court in the same way that Gwyn Wilcox at the NLRB did, that Badoya at the FTC did when they were removed earlier this year.
Right.
So we know how that process kind of works, but there's this period of time between when the president tries to fire someone who is statutorily protected from being fired by the president, and the federal courts make a decision about whether that person's going to get to continue to work in their job while the litigation is going on, where who knows?
So right now.
To your question, the Federal Reserve Board
and Jay Powell as the active executive officer of the board.
Is in a difficult position where they have to decide does she still have her office?
And they're under an independent obligation to follow the law, right?
They don't get to just say the president told me so.
They swore to uphold the law.
So they have to make their own determination about whether she was in fact fired by a social media post, right?
That didn't follow any of the proper process.
And it's an invalid firing on its face.
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