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The President\u2019s letter cited the mortgage allegations as cause for removal but did not offer Cook any prior notice or opportunity to respond.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECook sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on August 28, 2025, alleging that her removal violated the Federal Reserve Act\u2019s requirement that Governors may be removed only \u201cfor cause\u201d and that the President\u2019s action also violated her procedural due process rights under the Fifth Amendment. She sought a temporary restraining order, which the district court treated as a motion for a preliminary injunction.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe district court granted the preliminary injunction on September 9, 2025, ordering that Cook\u2019s removal not be enforced while the litigation proceeds. The court found that Cook was likely to prevail on her statutory and constitutional claims and that the government\u2019s asserted harms were outweighed by the public interest in due process and Federal Reserve independence. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied the government\u2019s emergency motion for a stay on September 15, 2025, with Judges Garcia and Childs concurring and Judge Katsas dissenting.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Trump administration filed an emergency application for a stay with the Supreme Court, asking the Justices to allow Cook\u2019s removal to take effect immediately. The Court deferred a ruling on the stay. 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