The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to lift lower court rulings that have blocked President Donald Trump from firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook .

The request came a day after Cook participated in a meeting of the Fed's Federal Open Market Committee , which decided to cut its benchmark overnight lending rate by a quarter percentage point .

"This application involves yet another case of improper judicial interference with the President's removal authority — here, interference with the President's authority to remove members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors for cause," Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in the Justice Department's filing Thursday at the Supreme Court.

Trump said on Aug. 25 that he was firing Cook from the seven-mem

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