Maintenance in progress

the us supreme court ruled 5-4 to block trump from removing federal reserve governor lisa cook, upholding the lower court order, but explicitly left open the possibility of future dismissal attempts via different legal arguments. in the same 72-hour window, the trump administration's office of the director of national intelligence demanded that fbi and cia compile a master list of all foreign espionage targets and recruited assets — a demand both agencies are actively resisting. two distinct institutional resistance events to the same executive actor within the same cycle is structurally unusual.

us federal court filings and us national security reporting