By Daniel Wiessner

(Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday moved quickly to appeal a federal judge’s ruling temporarily blocking Trump from taking the unprecedented step of firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, as it aims to be able to remove her before the U.S. central bank’s interest-rate-setting meeting next week.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a brief notice that it was appealing the ruling from late Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, who said Trump’s claims that Cook committed mortgage fraud prior to taking office were likely not sufficient grounds for her removal.

The one-sentence notice filed on Wednesday says only that the Trump administration is appealing Cobb’s decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

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