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Trump has renewed an effort to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook despite a Supreme Court ruling allowing her to stay while her case proceeds, with a White House letter giving Cook 21 days to respond to mortgage‑fraud allegations and reigniting concerns about the Fed's independence.
In this Financial Times opinion, Sheila Bair argues that the Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais decision abandons Section 2’s language and long-standing precedent by imposing a difficult intent standard for voting-discrimination claims, undermining roughly 60 years of progress in Black enfranchisement. The piece traces the history from White v. Regester to Mobile v. Bolden and the 1982 Dole compromise, warning that the Court’s approach could hamper challenges to discriminatory redistricting and enable partisan dilution of Black votes.