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Supreme court walls fed in front of Trump

The Supreme Court protected the Federal Reserve on Thursday, also when President Trump allowed the board members of two other independent agencies, whereby potentially isolated central bank officials such as the chairman Jerome Powell were insulated against immediate removal of the White House.

The nation's highest court on Thursday left the shots in the National Labor Relations Board and in the Merit Systems Protection Board, while the legal challenges for these parades work by the US Appeal Court for the District of Columbia.

“We do not agree” with arguments of the members of the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit System Protection Board that their legal challenges “are necessarily implementing the constitutionality of protection protection for the distance for the removal for the members of the governor of the Federal Reserve or other members of the federal management committee”.

The central bank added, “is a uniquely structured, quasi-private unit that follows the different historical tradition of the first and second banks of the United States.”

The only legal language that refers specifically to the removal of Fed board members can be found in Section 10 of the Federal Reserve Act. The law states that each member of the board held an office for 14 years “if the president was not organized earlier”.

FileToto: US President Donald Trump looks at Jerome Powell, his candidate, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, becomes the podium of the White House in Washington, USA, Reuters/Carlos Barria/FileToto on November 2, 2017 · Reuters / Reuters

The law has no language that expressly deals with the chairman of the Governor Council, and it is not described exactly what is “for reasons”. The term was interpreted in legal decisions as “inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct”.

The Court of Justice has made every effort to distinguish the Fed from the two agencies in question, and explained that the government could probably prove that both the NLRB and MSPB have “considerable executive power”.

The President Austan Goolsbee, President of Chicago Fed on Friday, told CNBC that he was “pleased that the Supreme Court recognized the importance of independence”.

What Trump is trying to contest is a 90-year-old precedent of the Supreme Court, who limits the president's authority to reject independent board members, except in cases of neglect or misconduct.

If this precedent falls at some point, a Powell shot could be pulled off to the Fed more easily.

Trump has also delivered pink slips to leaders of other federal authorities, including the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Election Commission, and these shots are also questioned before the pre -dishes.

“There is no legal difference between Jerome Powell and me,” said an FTC board member of Trump to Bloomberg at the beginning of this year. “If the president can legally remove me, he can legally remove Jerome Powell.”

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