Fresh off a loss in district court , the DOJ in an emergency filing urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday to put on hold a judge's order that blocked President Donald Trump's firing of Federal Reserve Board governor Lisa Cook , ahead of an anticipated Fed meeting.

The 24-page filing submitted to the appellate court, seeking an emergency stay and administrative stay pending appeal, notably cited the U.S. Supreme Court's recent order that allowed, for now, Trump to fire FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, the potential implications of which Law&Crime previously covered as it related to Cook's case.

The opening lines of the motion stated that U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, a 2021 appointee of President Joe Biden, made "a series of legal errors

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