A court hearing on Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook 's request that President Donald Trump be temporarily barred from firing her while her lawsuit against the president plays out ended Friday without a judge issuing a ruling.

Cook's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, at that hearing blasted the Department of Justice's argument that Trump had legal cause to remove Cook because of suggestions by Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte that she committed mortgage fraud in documents for two properties in Atlanta and Ann Arbor, Michigan, before joining the Fed.

"You can't have Director Pulte's crazy midnight tweets be the cause," Lowell told Judge Jia Cobb in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.

Pulte, who was appointed by Trump, has served as an attack dog for the presi

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