The New York Times editorial board attacked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday for enabling President Donald Trump, leading to the moment of his firing a Federal Reserve governor after one of his appointees posted an allegation about her on X.

Bill Pulte, Trump's director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, claimed to look up the mortgage information of Lisa Cook, President Joe Biden's appointee to the Federal Reserve. He then posted that she broke the law by claiming two places as a primary residence. Cook hasn't been charged with a crime nor has she been convicted of anything, but Trump announced she was fired.

"The Supreme Court deserves significant blame for this situation," wrote the Times. "In May the court issued a decision expanding the president’s authority to remove officials at independent agencies, such as the National Labor Relations Board, while carving out an exception for the Fed. Its independence, the justices said, remained intact. Yet the ruling was part of the court’s emergency docket, and the justices included scant justification for the exception."

The board noted that Trump frequently tries to squeeze himself through cracks the High Court created with its "lack of a clear, definitive standard."

"By attempting to fire Ms. Cook, he has set up a direct clash with the conservative court majority he helped create," the board warned. "The justices didn’t want this fight, but now the courts have to stand up for the ruling the Supreme Court just made — and for the rule of law."

Given no judge has found any wrongdoing by Cook, and Trump hasn't presented any in court, Trump "is effectively asserting that the president gets to decide what counts as cause, which would render the standard meaningless."

If the Supreme Court lets Trump get away with it, the editorial claimed that Trump will have the power to bully the central bank to do whatever he wants to the U.S. economy.

As Trump and Pulte continue their campaign against Cook, the Times noted, "We have two words for the president: Prove it."

Read the full editorial here.