Tag: removal power
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The White House has restarted its effort to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. Dan Scavino, who heads the Office of Presidential Personnel, wrote to Cook this week that there is sufficient reason to believe she...
U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff ruled on July 17, 2026 that the administration violated the law when it dismissed Mary Comans, FEMA's former chief financial officer, without following civil-service removal...
On July 9, 2026, President Trump removed the three remaining members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), the bipartisan federal agency created after the 2000 election to support state election...
On June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Trump v. Slaughter that the president may remove Federal Trade Commission members without cause, upholding President Trump's March 2025 firing of Commissioner Rebecca...
On August 25, 2025, President Trump announced he was removing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, citing what he called "deceitful and potentially criminal conduct in a financial matter." The allegation originated with...
On July 16, 2025, the Justice Department fired Maurene Comey, an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York who had been a lead prosecutor on the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases and more...