A couple of weeks after a Federal Reserve Board governor sued to block her firing by Donald Trump , Lisa Cook persuaded a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that mortgage fraud allegations stemming from before her time in office do not meet the "for cause" standard for removal.

U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, a 2021 appointee of President Joe Biden, began her ruling in Cook's favor by noting the groundbreaking nature of the case — that it is a case of " first impression " — and ended the ruling by pointing out that this is the "first" attempted "'for cause' removal of a Federal Reserve Board Governor[.]"

Cook, also a Biden appointee who began her 14-year term in 2023, and her high-profile attorney Abbe Lowell have, at least for now, successfully argued that, regardless of the disputed mort

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