August 31, 2025
The Imperial Judiciary
By Clarice Feldman
By now, we are getting used to lower courts misappropriating their roles, acting as if they occupied that of the chief executive. As these cases reach the Supreme Court, they are being overturned, but not without a cost to the president’s agenda or to the respect to which we’d normally accord the judiciary. The notion of a judicial coup is not far off, and people like Elon Musk suggest it’s time for Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings against the worst offenders.
This week, there are several examples of cases where the courts have been asked by plaintiffs to assume presidential powers, and except for one case still pending (the firing of Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board), they did so.
Lisa Cook is a governor of the Federal Reserve Board. There is substantial documentary evidence that she lied on several mortgage applications. Even the left-wing Washington Post conceded this.
A public-records search by Reuters appears to confirm that on June 18, 2021, Cook obtained a mortgage from a Michigan credit union for a property in Washtenaw County, Michigan, which she said would be her primary residence. Two weeks later, she obtained a mortgage from a different credit union for a condo in Atlanta, which she also said would be her primary residence. Obviously, she could not live in two places at once.
Now sometimes people buy a house they plan to live in, then unexpectedly have to move -- a job loss, a transfer, a health crisis. That’s not fraud -- it’s life happening. But given that these two loans closed in such a short space of time… well, I’m finding it hard to tell a story where she thought she was going to be living in Michigan while applying for a mortgage on a property in Georgia, or vice versa.
I suppose it’s possible that the banks knew about the other properties and didn’t care. Or perhaps she (or her mortgage broker) accidentally checked the wrong box on one of the loan applications. But that would be a surprising mistake for a tenured professor of economics, much less a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors.
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