Hunch. The Supreme Court ruled in June that a Fed governor can be removed only for cause after a fair process, and Cook denies the claims.
The vote market resolves on the Federal Reserve's rate statement of 9 December 2026 on federalreserve.gov, with The Guardian and BBC News as backup. YES if Lisa Cook is named in the voting lines, for or against, and NO if her name is not there.
We looked for cases where a US president fired a member of a federal board whose law allowed removal only for a named reason, such as neglect of duty, and the member went to court. We found five such fights since 1933, four of them under Donald Trump. Before Cook, no president had tried to fire a Fed governor.