The Trump administration dropped its appellate fight to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, three weeks after the Supreme Court blocked the firing in a 5-4 ruling. That means the underlying legal question — whether Trump's attempt to fire Cook violated the Federal Reserve Act — will now be decided by a federal district judge. The June 29 Supreme Court ruling blocked the removal. "This was never about mortgage documents signed years before I became a Federal Reserve governor," Cook said in a statement after the ruling. The Federal Reserve was the one exception.