Trump’s Move to Fire Fed Governor Sets Up New Legal Test of Presidential Power

特朗普解雇美联储高管的举动引发对总统权力的新法律考验

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2025-08-28

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P.M. Edition for Aug. 27. Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook has vowed to fight President Trump’s effort to remove her from her post—a legal challenge likely to end up in front of the Supreme Court. WSJ Supreme Court correspondent Jess Bravin talks about the legal precedents for the president’s moves, and how such a case might be decided. Plus, we have the latest on the shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis that left two children dead. And the FBI says that Salt Typhoon, the Beijing-linked yearslong espionage campaign, was much more extensive than investigators had previously understood. WSJ editor Aruna Viswanatha joins to discuss just how huge it really was. Alex Ossola hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • At least two children were killed in a shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis.

  • Plus,

  • President Trump's attempt to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook is setting up a new legal test of presidential power.

  • This is going to be a tough one for the Supreme Court if it says,

  • for example, that, well, the difference here is that...

  • The president asserted there was cause to remove Lisa Cook.

  • Then the question is, well, what does it take to establish that cause?

  • Is it just the president's opinion?

  • And how a Beijing-linked espionage campaign was much more extensive than initially understood.

  • It's Wednesday, August 27th.

  • I'm Alex Osele for The Wall Street Journal.

  • This is the PM edition of What's News,

  • the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.

  • We begin this evening with the latest on the shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis.

  • The attack has left two children dead and 17 other people injured, 14 of whom are children.

  • Two of the injured children are in critical condition.

  • The shooting took place just before 8.30 a.m. local time during a mass that marked the first week of the school year.

  • In a news conference, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara described the attack.

  • Shooting through the windows.

  • He struck children.