That deafening silence on Tuesday was Republicans and business leaders reacting to Donald Trump’s latest authoritarian power grab: his effort to fire Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor, based on unproved allegations of mortgage fraud from one of his lackeys, Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. On Monday night, Cook said she wouldn’t resign, and on Tuesday, her lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said she will file a lawsuit challenging Trump’s authority to force her out, adding that the attempted ouster “lacks any factual or legal basis.” The standoff will go through the lower courts and may well end up before the Supreme Court, which previously has issued mixed signals about the limits of the President’s power. In recent months, the conservative majority has ruled that T

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