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The Supreme Court<\/span> on Monday ruled against President Donald Trump\u2019s attempt to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, dealing a setback to Trump\u2019s campaign to take control of monetary policy. The court\u2019s 5-4 decision preserves Cook\u2019s job as she continues to fight her removal, but it is not the final word on Trump\u2019s bid to fire her. The narrow decision almost guarantees that this same dispute will return to the high court soon.<\/p>

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The majority by Chief Justice John Roberts expresses explicit support for Fed independence. As an independent bank regulator, the Fed is run by a board of presidentially appointed governors who serve 14 year terms and are only removable for cause. The Trump administration argued that it had cause and that the Supreme Court could not review its removal decision. But the majority found the government\u2019s arguments at odds with an independent Fed.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo accept any one of those arguments would in effect transform the Federal Reserve\u2019s for-cause protection into at-will employment\u2014an interpretive leap out of step with the statute Congress enacted and our Nation\u2019s tradition of central banking protected from political interference,\u201d Roberts wrote.<\/p>\n

The decision comes at a time when the future of Fed independence is in doubt. Trump\u2019s pick for Fed chair, Kevin Warsh, is awaiting confirmation by the Senate. Keeping Cook in her seat steadies the ship, if only a little. The majority\u2019s decision, however, is explicitly \u201cnarrow.\u201d It requires that Cook be given proper notice of the cause of her removal and an opportunity to contest those charges. The decision does not lay out what that process looks like. And it saves for another day\u2014which will almost certainly come soon\u2014a court decision on whether Trump\u2019s obviously pretextual allegations will be enough to remove Cook.<\/p>\n

In a post on Truth Social Monday, Trump called the Cook<\/em> ruling \u201cstrictly procedural\u201d and pledged to \u201ctake appropriate action immediately to make sure that someone who has committed wrongdoing will not be making vital decisions concerning the Welfare of the United States of America!\u201d<\/p>\n

In short, this is a loss for Trump at this stage\u2014but it may not be a permanent one. <\/p>\n

In its ruling, the court declined to define what for-cause protection requires in order for a firing to be valid. Indeed, it hints that rather than leave it up to the president, it may ultimately be the final arbiter of what constitutes cause on a case-by-case basis. \u201cOnly after Cook has had the opportunity to respond to the charges made against her\u2026may a final decision be made\u2026And only then can the courts assess the validity and sufficiency of such charges,\u201d Roberts wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be clear, the ultimate question of whether the President can remove Cook for cause will depend in part on the underlying facts,\u201d the chief justice added. \u201cIn this opinion, we have not addressed the facts.\u201d<\/p>

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Here are those facts, as we know them.<\/p>\n

Last August, the president posted a criminal referral against Cook on Truth Social, his social media platform, and demanded she resign. The accusation\u2014created by Bill Pulte, Trump\u2019s Federal Housing Finance Agency director\u2014is that Cook claimed primary residency on two different mortgage applications. If this charge sounds familiar, it\u2019s because it\u2019s the same one Pulte cooked up against two other Democrats\u2014and it has yet to win the day against any of the president\u2019s targets because, at most, Pulte appears to have discovered clerical errors. Five days after Trump\u2019s social media post, the president announced in another post that he was firing Cook.<\/p>\n

Trump claimed that the mortgage document discrepancy dug up by a political lackey was sufficient cause to fire Cook, and that the courts couldn\u2019t review his decision to boot her, anyway. In other words, Trump\u2019s argument is that he can state any cause for removal he likes, and there\u2019s nothing anyone can do about it. It\u2019s an obviously absurd argument because it renders the \u201cfor cause\u201d removal restriction meaningless. Cook sued, and a district court judge blocked her removal, as did the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Trump turned to the Supreme Court, which agreed to decide whether Trump could temporarily remove Cook while her legal challenge to her firing moves forward.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court handed down its ruling Monday in conjunction with a related case\u2014Trump v. Slaughter<\/em>\u2014in which the court gave Trump the power to remove the commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission and other formerly independent agencies. That decision follows a string of cases in which the court\u2019sthis conservative majority found that the president\u2019s power over the executive branch trumped Congress\u2019 attempt to insulate agencies from political pressure. During Trump\u2019s second term, the court had alreadywaved through firings of Democratic commissioners on the , , and on its shadowdocket.<\/p>\n

Logically, it\u2019s hard to reconcile the court\u2019s Cook <\/em>decision with its rulings in Slaughter <\/em>and other cases allowing Trump to fire independent agency commissioners. But the Federal Reserve Board\u2019sindependence is a pillar of the United States\u2019 economy, and the US\u2019s dominant global position makes that independence critical to the world economy, as well. Allowing Trump to turn interest rates, loans, bailouts, and access to the US banking system into political weapons would fundamentally reshape the economy and our democratic order. The Fed, in other words, is too important for one man to control.<\/p>\n

To get out of this bind, Roberts\u2014who wrote both the and decisions\u2014insists that the Fed is simply different. Roberts\u2019 opinion cites a history of independent bank regulators going back to the country\u2019sfounding and finds this history is relevant in determining whether it should uphold Congress\u2019 legislative choice to make the Fed independent. \u201cWe see no reason to leave the public in limbo, or to sow doubt as to the status of one of our Nation\u2019s (and the world\u2019s) most important financial institutions,\u201d Roberts wrote. \u201cWe would not so quickly unsettle this \u2018special arrangement sanctioned by history.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

This entire adventure stems from the Roberts Court\u2019s own crusade to empower the president and hinder regulations disliked by big industry. The GOP-appointed majority has pushed forward its view of a \u201cunitary executive\u201d who controls all aspects of the executive branch, creating a roadmap for Trump to turn federal agencies into political weapons. Today, the court blesses Trump\u2019s attempts to take control of most<\/em> of the regulatory work that Congress deemed should be independent. But, at least to an extent, the Fed will be insulated from the consequences of that crusade.<\/p>

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