{"id":132047,"date":"2025-08-26T14:40:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/26\/donald-trumps-flimsiest-attempt-to-circumvent-the-constitution\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T14:40:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:40:58","slug":"donald-trumps-flimsiest-attempt-to-circumvent-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/26\/donald-trumps-flimsiest-attempt-to-circumvent-the-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s \u2018Flimsiest\u2019 Attempt To Circumvent The Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Fed was designed to operate insulated from political pressure so that it can make tough decisions based on data and the long-term health of the economy, not the whims of any one president. This outrageous and unprecedented attempt to fire\u00a0a member of the independent Federal Reserve on the flimsiest of unproven pretexts is clearly the latest scheme from a president determined to subvert the institutions that have kept our democracy strong and our economy the envy of the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span>\u2014 \u00a0Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA),\u00a0a member of the Senate Finance and\u00a0Banking\u00a0committees and Harvard Law School grad, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warner.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/2025\/8\/statement-of-sen-warner-on-the-attempted-firing-of\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sounds off<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/can-donald-trump-legally-fire-federal-reserve-governor-lisa-cook\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">awful justification<\/a> President Donald Trump made in his attempt to fire Fed. Governor Lisa Cook.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/donald-trumps-flimsiest-attempt-to-circumvent-the-constitution\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump\u2019s \u2018Flimsiest\u2019 Attempt To Circumvent The Constitution<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2217514837-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"post-single__featured-image-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(Photo by Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The Fed was designed to operate insulated from political pressure so that it can make tough decisions based on data and the long-term health of the economy, not the whims of any one president. This outrageous and unprecedented attempt to fire\u00a0a member of the independent Federal Reserve on the flimsiest of unproven pretexts is clearly the latest scheme from a president determined to subvert the institutions that have kept our democracy strong and our economy the envy of the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2014 \u00a0Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA),\u00a0a member of the Senate Finance and\u00a0Banking\u00a0committees and Harvard Law School grad, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warner.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/2025\/8\/statement-of-sen-warner-on-the-attempted-firing-of\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sounds off<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/can-donald-trump-legally-fire-federal-reserve-governor-lisa-cook\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">awful justification<\/a> President Donald Trump made in his attempt to fire Fed. Governor Lisa Cook.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fed was designed to operate insulated from political pressure so that it can make tough decisions based on data and the long-term health of the economy, not the whims of any one president. This outrageous and unprecedented attempt to fire\u00a0a member of the independent Federal Reserve on the flimsiest of unproven pretexts is clearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2217514837-1024x683-t7x5Ch.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}