The Supreme Court's Big Cases on Fed Independence and Gun Rights
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:32.6 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. The Supreme Court takes up |
| 0:40.2 | two big cases, one on the Federal Reserve's independence, whether President Trump can fire |
| 0:45.7 | Governor Lisa Cook, and the other on the Second Amendment, whether states can preemptively |
| 0:50.5 | prohibit concealed carry on private property, including stores and gas stations. |
| 0:56.2 | Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues on the |
| 1:01.3 | journal's opinion pages columnist Alicia Finley and Matt Cottonetti, who writes for the WSJ's new |
| 1:08.0 | free expression newsletter. Let's start with the case argued this morning. That's |
| 1:13.1 | Trump v. Cook. Trump, of course, needing no introduction. And Lisa Cook being a member of the |
| 1:18.3 | Federal Reserve Board of Governors appointed by President Biden in 2022. She is now fighting Trump's |
| 1:24.4 | effort to fire her for cause. And Alicia, that is an important part of this case. |
| 1:29.7 | The claim here is not that the president can remove any member of the board of governors |
| 1:35.3 | for any reason, any disagreement, including disagreements about policy, such as what interest |
| 1:40.4 | rates are proper at the moment. |
| 1:42.5 | It is a for cause case. And it might be helpful just to |
| 1:46.0 | lay out some of the background here. What is the claim that Trump is using? Maybe it's a pretext |
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