With Lisa Cook Ruling, Supreme Court Shields Fed from President Trump

In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court blocked President Trump’s efforts to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook for now, delivering the Fed a victory in the grueling fight over its independence. But the decision arrived alongside another ruling that allows the president to fire a top official at the Federal Trade Commission—a move widely seen as a boon to executive power over independent agencies. On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg Fed Editor Amara Omeokwe and Senior Legal Reporter Zoe Tillman join Sarah Holder to unpack what these twin rulings mean for the Trump administration's push to assert power over long-independent government regulators, how the court singled out the Fed in its decision and what this means for the central bank and Lisa Cook’s future. Read more: Supreme Court Expands Trump’s Power to Fire Federal Bureaucrats We have a special Bloomberg subscription offer for podcast listeners at Bloomberg.com/podcastoffer. Hosted by Sarah Holder; Produced by Rachael Lewis-Krisky; Reported by Amara Omeokwe and Zoe Tillman; Edited by Jeffrey Grocott. Fact-checking by Laura Newcombe and Victor Swezey; Engineering by Emma Munger. Senior Producer: Naomi Shavin; Deputy Executive Producer: Julia Weaver. Executive Producer: Nicole Beemsterboer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.