With an appellate court declining Monday to go along with President Donald Trump's firing of Federal Reserve Board governor Lisa Cook on the basis of alleged but unadjudicated mortgage fraud accusations, the DOJ has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and grant yet another administrative stay .

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in a 2-1 decision at the start of the week , said the Trump administration failed to meet the "stringent requirements for a stay pending appeal" of a lower court's injunction, which barred Cook's ouster.

The panel reached this conclusion with only U.S. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas, a Trump appointee , dissenting and stating he would have granted a stay.

Katsas explained his view that Cook's "apparent misrepresentations […] in app

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