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By MARK SHERMAN<\/strong><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014\u00a0The Supreme Court\u00a0on Monday dramatically expanded presidential power, upholding President Donald Trump\u2019s firings of the heads of independent federal agencies with one important exception: the Federal Reserve.<\/p>\n

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The justices allowed Fed governor Lisa Cook to stay in her job while she fights the Republican president\u2019s effort to fire her over allegations of mortgage fraud, which she has denied.<\/p>\n

But other than at the nation\u2019s central bank, with its role of setting interest rates, the court held that presidents have free rein to fire agency heads at will, despite federal laws that require a cause for such dismissals and\u00a0a 91-year-old decision\u00a0that had limited executive authority.<\/p>\n

With the six conservative justices in the majority, the nine-member court jettisoned its unanimous decision in Humphrey\u2019s Executor that had limited when presidents can fire agencies\u2019 board members \u2014 in part to try to ensure decision-making free of political influence.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hold that such protection from removal is contrary to the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution,\u201d Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court.<\/p>\n

Support for Trump\u2019s position<\/h4>\n

The justices ruled in the case of former Federal Trade Commission member\u00a0Rebecca Slaughter, whom Trump fired without cause despite a provision of federal law that requires a reason. The logic of the decision extends to other agencies, including the National Labor Relations Board, the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, where Trump also has fired board members.<\/p>\n

Trump voiced his approval in a Truth Social post. \u201cIt is such an Honor to be the sitting President who won this Historic and Unprecedented Ruling, one of the most important ever given with respect to Presidential Powers,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

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The court already had signaled its support for the Trump administration\u2019s position, over the liberals\u2019 objection, by allowing Slaughter and the board members of other agencies to be removed from their jobs even as their legal challenges continued.<\/p>\n

No president before Trump had sought to wrest control of the agencies that regulate wide swaths of American life, including nuclear energy, product safety and labor relations. But at arguments in Slaughter\u2019s case in December, the six conservatives, including three appointed by Trump, seemed more concerned about issuing a ruling that would endure than handing too much power to Trump.<\/p>\n

Their rhetoric was reminiscent of\u00a0the presidential immunity case\u00a0in 2024 that allowed Trump to avoid prosecution for his efforts to undo his 2020 presidential election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. The court is writing a decision \u201cfor the ages,\u201d Justice Neil Gorsuch said then.<\/p>\n

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a dissent she summarized aloud in the courtroom, said the ruling could lead to \u201csubmission, instability, and even oppression.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe president, to be sure, emerges with more power than ever before. That power was given to him by six justices on this court, not the people or the Constitution,\u201d Sotomayor said.<\/p>\n

Fed governor Cook\u2019s case<\/h4>\n

In Cook\u2019s case, the court voted 5-4 to reject the Trump administration\u2019s effort to get Cook out of her job now. Roberts, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the three liberal justices were in the majority.<\/p>\n

Allowing Cook to be ousted now, Roberts wrote, \u201cwould allow the President to remove a member of the Federal Reserve at any time, for any reason, without any notice before, and without any judicial check after. That would turn for-cause protection into little more than at-will employment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roberts did include a footnote in his opinion noting that nothing forbids Trump from \u201ctrying again\u201d to fire her, provided she is given proper notice and a chance to contest it.<\/p>\n

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Trump suggested he would take Roberts up on the offer, saying on Truth Social that \u201cwe will take appropriate action immediately to make sure that someone who has committed wrongdoing will not be making vital decisions concerning the Welfare of the United States of America!\u201d<\/p>\n

Cook, who was\u00a0nominated to the Fed\u2019s Board of Governors\u00a0by Biden, can continue in her post at least as long as her lawsuit challenging her firing goes on, the court said. The Trump administration is appealing a lower-court ruling in her favor.<\/p>\n

Besides trying to fire Cook, Trump had threatened to fire former Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell if he didn\u2019t leave the board when his term as chairman ended in mid-May.\u00a0Powell has remained as a governor, even as\u00a0Kevin Warsh has replaced him as chairman.<\/p>\n

Judges on lower courts have allowed Cook to remain in her post as one of seven central bank governors.<\/p>\n

The true motivation for trying to fire Cook, Trump\u2019s critics say, is the Republican president\u2019s desire to exert control over U.S. interest rate policy. If Trump succeeds in removing Cook, the first Black woman to be a Federal Reserve governor, he could replace her with his own appointee and gain a majority on the Fed\u2019s board. The case is being closely watched by Wall Street investors and could have broad impacts on the financial markets and the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n

Cook said her case was \u201cnever about mortgage documents signed years before I became a Federal Reserve governor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an attempt to remove me on a manufactured pretext because I refused to bow to political pressure and continued to set interest rates based only on what would best serve the American people. That is the most fundamental obligation of a Federal Reserve governor,\u201d Cook said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s confrontation with the Fed<\/h4>\n

Trump has been dismissive of worries that cutting rates too quickly could trigger higher inflation. He wants dramatic reductions so the government can borrow more cheaply and Americans can pay lower borrowing costs for new homes, cars or other large purchases, as worries about high costs have soured some voters on his economic management.<\/p>\n

The Fed has left its key rate unchanged this year, but a growing chorus of policymakers is expressing concern about persistently high inflation and suggesting the central bank could raise its benchmark rate by the end of this year or leave it unchanged.<\/p>\n

While Cook\u2019s case was under review at the high court, Trump dramatically escalated his confrontation with the Fed. The Justice Department opened\u00a0a criminal investigation of Powell\u00a0and served the central bank with subpoenas.<\/p>\n

The investigation ended in late April, the department said. The announcement cleared a major roadblock to the confirmation of Warsh as Powell\u2019s successor.<\/p>\n

The case against Cook stems from allegations she claimed two properties, in Michigan and Georgia, as \u201cprimary residences\u201d in June and July 2021, before she joined the Fed board. Such claims can lead to a lower mortgage rate and smaller down payment than if one of them was declared as a rental property or second home.<\/p>\n

Those applications, Solicitor General D. John Sauer said in January, are evidence of \u201cgross negligence at best\u201d and give Trump reason to fire her. In any event, he argued, courts shouldn\u2019t be reviewing his decision and Cook has no right to a hearing.<\/p>\n

Cook has denied any wrongdoing and has not been charged with a crime.<\/p>\n

Follow the AP\u2019s coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court at\u00a0https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/us-supreme-court.<\/em><\/p>\n

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