Lisa Cook, politician of the US Federal Reserve, and U.S. President Donald Trump.
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President Donald Trump connected Friday asked a justice to contradict a petition by Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook to contented an injunction barring Trump from firing her.
The Fed, successful a abstracted tribunal filing, took nary presumption connected Cook's suit challenging her termination by the president, but asked the justice to contented a "prompt ruling" to resoluteness the dispute.
The filings came astir 2 hours earlier a scheduled proceeding successful U.S. District Court successful Washington, D.C., connected Cook's petition for a impermanent restraining bid that would artifact Trump from removing her.
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