By Andrew Chung

(Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s global tariffs and his bid to oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, unprecedented assertions of executive power that underlie his economic policy, are now in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court, which will decide how far he can go to reshape and control the levers of the economy.

In the span of just over a week, the top U.S. judicial body has before it two high-stakes battles with major implications for both the court and the Republican president.

On Thursday, Trump’s administration filed a request asking the court to lift a federal judge’s order that blocked him from removing Cook, a move without precedent since the central bank’s founding in 1913. Cook is an appointee of Trump’s Democratic predecessor Joe Biden.

On September 9,

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