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Supreme Court is simultaneously weighing two challenges to presidential removal authority that legal experts believe will diverge sharply, with the Federal Reserve's structural independence appearing far better shielded than that of the Federal Trade Commission.
The paired disputes — Slaughter v. Trump, involving FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, and Trump v.
Cook, involving Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook — have become the central constitutional battleground over how far White House control of independent agencies can extend, with the outcome carrying implications for central-bank credibility well beyond U.S.
The Administration's Split Legal Strategy The Trump administration's Solicitor General John Sauer has argued differently in each case, a tactical gap that Catholic University of America law professor Joel Alicea says is deliberate and revealing.
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