Lisa Cook has sued Donald Trump. She believes that he is trying to get her removed from the central bank Federal Reserve's board of directors in an unlawful manner.
She has also requested a kind of temporary restraining order, according to Reuters, with the aim of preventing her from being fired from her position as long as the lawsuit is ongoing. The restraining order is to be brought before the court in Washington as early as Friday, at 10 am local time.
Donald Trump has claimed that she should be fired because she did not handle her mortgage applications correctly. In her defense, Lisa Cook will argue that it is a matter of an "unintentional administrative error", according to reports from, among others, the news agency Bloomberg.
Cook's lawsuit on Thursday is a further escalation of the conflict between the White House and the central bank. Not least Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has been in the line of fire for Trump's attacks.
Trump wants the Fed to lower interest rates, something that the board of directors has opposed, citing that monetary policy decisions should be made based on economic statistics and without political interference.
Lisa Cook was nominated in 2022 to her current position by the former president, Democrat Joe Biden.
