Skip to content
September 26, 2025Cryptopolitan logoCryptopolitan

Lisa Cook told the Supreme Court that firing her would crash markets

Lisa Cook has told the ￰0￱ Court that if they let President Trump fire her, financial markets will collapse and the Fed’s independence could be gone for ￰1￱ warning came in a filing on Thursday, where Lisa’s lawyers pushed back hard against the White House’s effort to kick her out over alleged mortgage ￰2￱ said removing her right now could trigger “chaos and disruption,” and even open the door for a legal mess where two different people fight for the same Fed ￰3￱ filing came in response to the Justice Department’s emergency request on September 18, asking the Court to immediately lift a lower judge’s ruling that had blocked Lisa’s ￰4￱ claimed she lied on her home mortgage applications and that was enough reason to fire ￰5￱ Lisa, who’s still actively participating in monetary policy decisions, argued that the accusations don’t meet the legal bar set by the Federal Reserve ￰6￱ the court filing, Lisa’s team said the president’s request to remove her immediately “would sound the death knell for the central-bank independence that has helped make the United States’ economy the strongest in the world.” Without limits, they argued, any governor could be removed over any weak accusation, turning the Fed into a political ￰7￱ veterans and economists push Supreme Court to stop Trump On Thursday, former Federal Reserve chairs Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, and Janet Yellen sent their own message to the Court: stop this before it does long-term ￰8￱ a joint letter, they said: “Allowing the government to remove a member of the Board of Governors for the first time in the Nation’s history, while under the cloud of legal challenge, will erode public confidence in the Fed’s independence and threaten the long-term stability of our economy.” As Cryptopolitan previously reported , that same letter was also signed by former Treasury secretaries Larry Summers, Robert Rubin, Jacob Lew, and Henry Paulson, along with Kenneth Rogoff, the former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, and ex-Fed governor Daniel ￰9￱ made it clear that letting Trump fire Lisa now, while the court battle is still underway, would crush the Fed’s ability to act without political ￰10￱ issue has already passed through two lower ￰11￱ September 9, Judge Jia Cobb stopped Trump from firing Lisa, saying the White House’s accusations didn’t meet the legal requirement of “for cause” under the ￰12￱ on September 15, the ￰13￱ of Appeals backed Cobb’s decision in a 2–1 vote, rejecting the White House’s attempt to overturn the ￰14￱ instead of waiting, Trump pushed the fight straight to the highest ￰15￱ lawyers want the block lifted now, and Lisa removed before the rest of the case even plays ￰16￱ legal team has warned that if the Court sides with Trump, it could create a situation where someone else is nominated to her seat, while her case is still active, putting two people in the same role at ￰17￱ the court drama, Lisa is still doing her ￰18￱ joined the Federal Reserve Board’s latest policy meeting just last week, and voted to cut interest rates by 25 basis ￰19￱ vote happened while Trump’s team was still trying to push her ￰20￱ hasn’t backed down publicly and has made it clear that she won’t ￰21￱ smartest crypto minds already read our ￰22￱ in?

Join them .

Cryptopolitan logo
Cryptopolitan

Latest news and analysis from Cryptopolitan

Roblox AI age tool will estimate every user’s age, but analysts question upside

Roblox AI age tool will estimate every user’s age, but analysts question upside

Roblox has unveiled a major new safety system that will use artificial intelligence to estimate the age of every user on the platform. CEO David Baszucki said the plan is to finish the rollout by the ...

Cryptopolitan logoCryptopolitan
1 min
Strategy Dominates Q3 With 640,808 Bitcoin and 26.0% BTC Yield

Strategy Dominates Q3 With 640,808 Bitcoin and 26.0% BTC Yield

Strategy Inc. reported $2.8 billion in Q3 net income as its 640,808- bitcoin treasury, valued at $70.9 billion, delivered a 26% BTC yield and reinforced its leadership in profitable, large-scale insti...

Bitcoin.com logoBitcoin.com
1 min
ECB’s Digital Euro Plans Spark Crypto Backlash and Potential Bitcoin Embrace in EU

ECB’s Digital Euro Plans Spark Crypto Backlash and Potential Bitcoin Embrace in EU

The European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde announced the progression of the digital euro, a central bank digital currency (CBDC), into its final preparation phase, aiming for a potent...

CoinOtag logoCoinOtag
1 min