WASHINGTON — President Trump’s Justice Department petitioned the Supreme Court Thursday to give him the go-ahead to fire embattled Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook after two lower courts blocked her ouster.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued that the lower court ruling keeping Cook on the central bank amounted to “improper judicial interference” and should be overturned.

“This application involves yet another case of improper judicial interference with the President’s removal authority,” Sauer wrote in the filing . “The government is likely to succeed on the merits because Cook lacks a Fifth Amendment property interest in her continued service as a Governor of the Federal Reserve.” 3

“The President’s strong concerns about the appearance of mortgage fraud, based on facia

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