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President Trump stands to the left of Fed Chair Jerome Powell as he speaks to the media.
President Donald Trump delivers remarks alongside Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell July 24, 2025, in Washington, DC. The Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

In Federal Reserve case, Trump meets a power that SCOTUS might not give him

Even before the Powell investigation, the Supreme Court had signaled its intent to insulate the central bank from Trump’s consolidation of agency power. edit

Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro," a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MS NOW, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.