Lisa Cook, governor of the US Federal Reserve, and U.S. President Donald Trump.
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President Donald Trump on Friday morning asked a judge to deny a request by Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook to issue an order barring Trump from firing her as her lawsuit challenging her removal plays out in court.
The Fed, in a separate court filing, took no position on Cook’s lawsuit challenging her termination by the president, but asked Judge Jia Cobb to issue a “prompt ruling” to resolve the dispute.
The filings were made approximately two hours before a scheduled hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Cook’s request for a temporary restraining order to prevent her removal.
Cook sued Trump, the Fed Board of Governors and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell on Thursday. The suit says that Trump’s firing of her is illegal, and asked Cobb for an order keeping her on the job while the case was litigated.
Powell and the Fed Board were sued only to the extent they would at some point seek to execute Trump’s desire to fire her.
The Supreme Court is likely to end up resolving the dispute.
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