Lisa Cook, a governor on the Federal Reserve Board, sued President Donald Trump today over his decision to fire her from the nation’s central bank, arguing that she should be able to retain her position because the White House had no authority to order the dismissal.

Cook’s lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, described her ouster as “unprecedented and illegal,” as she framed Trump’s actions as part of an overtly political campaign to pressure the independent Fed into lowering interest rates.

The lawsuit sets the stage for a landmark legal battle over the future of the Fed, an independent institution that Trump has savaged for months in a bid to install political loyalists who share his views on monetary policy.

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