Maintenance in progress

the us supreme court ruled 5-4 to block the trump administration from firing federal reserve board member lisa cook, explicitly carving the fed out from the broader expansion of presidential removal power — while simultaneously stripping roughly 24 other federal agencies of the same protection. the ruling creates a two-tier institutional architecture: monetary authority shielded, most other independent agencies exposed. no published doctrine explains the precise boundary.

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