US EditionGreenspan, Bernanke and Yellen urge Supreme Court to let Lisa Cook keep her job as a Fed governor
A bipartisan coalition of former Fed chairs, Treasury secretaries, and economists warn that firing Cook threatens Federal Reserve independence and U.S. monetary policy credibility.
- On Thursday, a bipartisan group of former Fed chairs, Treasury secretaries and economists filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to keep Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook in place, listing 18 signatories.
- Last month President Donald Trump sought to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook over allegations involving two properties in Michigan and Georgia, prompting Cook to sue and lower federal courts to block her removal.
- Led by former chairs Greenspan, Bernanke and Yellen, the signers including former Treasury secretaries Paulson, Summers, Rubin and Geithner warned removal would politicize the Fed and harm its 2% inflation fight.
- Cook must respond by Thursday at 4 p.m. as Supreme Court justices weigh the DOJ’s emergency appeal while two federal courts have kept Cook on the board, where she voted to cut a key interest rate by one-quarter.
- For the first time in the Fed's history, a president has tried to remove a sitting governor, risking erosion of safeguards Congress established years ago and long-term economic harm, signers warned.
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