Cook’s attorney said the president has ‘no authority’ and ‘lacks any factual or legal basis’ to fire the Fed governor
The Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook will sue the Trump administration over its bid to fire her over unconfirmed allegations of mortgage fraud, her attorney has said.
Donald Trump announced he was firing Cook on Monday night, in an extraordinary move that marks the latest escalation in the US president’s attack on the central bank’s independence.
But Trump has “no authority” to remove her from the Fed’s board of governors, Cook’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, argued in a statement to reporters, saying: “His attempt to fire her, based solely on a referral letter, lacks any factual or legal basis. We will be filing a lawsuit challenging this illegal action.”
In other cases about Trump claiming to fire people that he wasn’t legally permitted to fire reporters went with the headline “Trump illegally fired…” I always thought that was a ridiculous framing. If someone who doesn’t have the right to fire you claims you’re fired, you’re not fired.
Right? It’s like a pissed off customer telling you that you’re fired. The correct response is, “ok, buddy.”
Yeah, this should be no different from some random crazed person on a street corner going up to passers-by and declaring that they’re fired.
A lawsuit is warranted simply because of how prominent this crazed person and his declarations are, not because they have any weight.