President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, isn’t the sort of story that will captivate the average American.

But it should: It is the latest in a slew of incidents in which Trump is operating in legally grey area, testing the limits of what he can and can’t do as president. Or, to borrow my favorite metaphor, stretching the rubber band of democracy in ways it simply has never been stretched before.

The Federal Reserve is an independent agency of the federal government. The only way a president is allowed to remove one of the board of governors is “for cause.” Trump has cited allegations that Cook falsified information on two mortgage applications as that cause. But Cook has not been charged with any crime, and is refusing to

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