I'm a news junkie so maybe it's just me but I seem to recall a lot of headlines like this one.

[BluesLegend]

This is your second OP on the SAME SUBJECT.

Did the first get bounced to the rubber room?

 

[berg80]

Are you trying to say that someone who commits mortgage fraud should stay employed?

Gee, I thought I made the question I was asking very clear.

Does President Trump have the authority to remove Ms. Cook?​

 

[Independent thinker]

Gee, I thought I made the question I was asking very clear.

Does President Trump have the authority to remove Ms. Cook?​

There is only one thing clear about your posts, "Me hate um Trump".

 

[BlindBoo]

No he does not have the unilateral power to fire them. It will be up to the Supreme Courts to decide the meaning of for cause. If an unproven allegation proves to be enough cause, then the country will be further on it's way down the shitter. It would be an expansion of executive power that both parties would use.

 

[berg80]

There is only one thing clear about your posts, "Me hate um Trump".

Is that your answer to the question as to the extent of his authority? Or are you passing on it?

 

[Independent thinker]

Is that your answer to the question as to the extent of his authority? Or are you passing on it?

Since you are an uber partisan troll and nothing but a Trump hater posting multiple anti-Trump threads day in and day out, I don't listen to a damn thing you say. I've already heard all of your BS before. I don't need to read the same shit time after time after time.

 

[marvin martian]

... or was it a simple mistake made by an accountant?

we don't know

Accountants don't fill out mortgage applications for their clients, and they certainly don't sign them.

Do better, liar.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Anti-Trump threads are appropriate to the anti-America threads the Trumpers keep posting.

 

[berg80]

Since you are an uber partisan troll and nothing but a Trump hater posting multiple anti-Trump threads day in and day out

You make it sound as though there aren't multiple reasons to be posting about this disastrous regime day in and day out. But I don't think my frequent posts are the source of your anger towards me. It's that you are so ineffectual in trying, and failing, to counter them.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Independent Think blabbers and ignores data and facts.

The proof: read his last 100 posts.

 

[Independent thinker]

You make it sound as though there aren't multiple reasons to be posting about this disastrous regime day in and day out. But I don't think my frequent posts are the source of your anger towards me. It's that you are so ineffectual in trying, and failing, to counter them.

You're multiple reasons are "Orange man bad".

 

[luiza]

Stop bein an idiot. Trump has to have cause, so let the DOJ file a case, then we can talk.

He is babbling right now, nothing more.

From the Horse Babbler .

Everyday you scribble your misinformed nonsense .

A Horse that has never once been right on a major issue since I started posting .
How is Ukraine getting on and the take back of Crimea?

The same lunatic who dissed anti -parasitic drugs as Covid and now Cancer treatments because he was so ignorant.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

He is bad, yes, Independent Thinker.

You are a victim of Trump Devotion Syndrome.

 

[BackAgain]

Stop bein an idiot. Trump has to have cause, so let the DOJ file a case, then we can talk.

He is babbling right now, nothing more.

You are the one babbling. As usual.

 

[BackAgain]

Does President Trump have the authority to remove Ms. Cook?​

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/trump-lisa-cook-fed-mortgage-fraud.html

That's cuz he does a lot of things stretching the bounds of presidential authority and dares anyone to stop him. After getting immunity for breaking the law while prez and having the SC in his back pocket I get how he could be emboldened to assume he has powers prez's have not previously exercised. But no reading of the Constitution to date allows many of the actions he's taken. Until the Roberts court and the radical conservative majority that is.

Lev Menand, a professor at Columbia Law School and former economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said he thought the allegations so far against Ms. Cook were “not sufficient” to allow Mr. Trump to remove her from the Fed, adding that she has not been charged or convicted of any crime.

“If there were a conviction for mortgage fraud, then we have this question of whether or not the statute would allow that as cause” for her firing, Mr. Menand said, noting that the law generally permits dismissal for wrongdoings related to professional misconduct.

“This would be a complicated proceeding,” he said.

On no. A not yet determined answer for your inquiry. But, I would say that he does. We have three branches of government under our Constitution.

The Federal Reserve is not a court. It is not a part of the Jusicial Branch.

It also doesn’t write laws. So we know it isn’t part of Legislative Branch.

It does make determinations on the setting of rates and our national fiscal policies to an extent. So it has to be under the control of the Executive Branch. I don’t care whether it was created as being quasi independent. That’s horseshit if we are talking about it in Constitutional terms. Which takes us back to there being just 3 Branches.

I presume the “question,” therefore, is whether the President can remove a “Governor” of that Board on the basis of a Presidential determination that Ms. Cook’s alleged misbehavior relative to one of her personal mortgage applications (or two) qualifies as sufficient cause.

It’s true that she hasn’t been found guilty of any such felony relative to those charges.

The Federal Reserve Act says that a Governor thereof “may be removed by the President for cause.” Is this a firing that requires that there first be a conviction? Is it wise to allow a Board Governor — against whom there exists evidence of the commission of one or more felonies (actually related to the kind of work she does) — to remain in Office pending a prosecution and its outcome?

I would suggest that the answer has to be “no.” All things considered, therefore, the President has to be able to act.