The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to issue an emergency order that would allow for the removal of Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s board of governors. The move came after an appeals court refused to back the administration’s attempt to oust Cook earlier this week, upholding federal Judge Jia Cobb’s order last […]
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President Donald Trump has secured a big win in his effort to reduce the footprint of the federal government. The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the administration can proceed with plans to lay off thousands of federal workers and cut funding to various federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
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A group of banking and mortgage associations is trying to get the U.S. Supreme Court‘s attention due to constitutional concerns about the state of New York’s Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act (FAPA). Friedman Vartolo LLP announced on Monday that it has filed an amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court on behalf of five of the
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Following a late Wednesday night decision by the U.S. Court of International Trade to halt President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on trade partners, a second federal court issued a similar decision in which it ruled that the invocation of a 1977 law does not give the president unilateral authority to impose such levies. But a
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