
Scott Alvarez
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Squawk on the Street 2nd Hour 6/29/26
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Carl QuintanillaHOST
Your thoughts about the decision, what Roberts writes, and then Kavanaugh is a swing.

Scott AlvarezGUEST
Yeah, so I think it's important that both sides of the political spectrum are on this case.

Scott AlvarezGUEST
It's a very important case, a very important step for the Federal Reserve, but it doesn't decide everything finally.

Scott AlvarezGUEST
The court simply said that It believes that Cook likely will succeed on the merits, but the courts below are going to have to make a decision about the extent of cause, whether there was cause in this case.

Scott AlvarezGUEST
So this case is going to go back to the Supreme Court, and we'll probably be talking about it again next year.

Scott AlvarezGUEST
I think it is important that the court focused on the Fed independence as part of monetary policy and the history of monetary policy.

Scott AlvarezGUEST
But then it went a little beyond that and said that the Federal Reserve, recognized that the Federal Reserve has broader powers and says, you know, the Federal Reserve is not trapped in amber.
Sara EisenHOST
I mean, what do you guys think? Whether the administration can still fire her with cause if they just have more evidence?
SOTS 2nd Hour: Fed Gov. Lisa Cook’s Case Heads To Court – Latest Analysis, Plus: Affirm & Celsius CEOs 8/29/25
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Contessa BrewerHOST
Is she due the kinds of due process protections that we would expect in any other court case?

Scott AlvarezGUEST
I would be surprised if the court found a difference between being a common employee of a government agency and being a head of an agency where the question is exactly the same.

Scott AlvarezGUEST
The question is, can the employee or the principal be removed for cause? It's hard to say that for cause means something different.

Carl QuintanillaHOST
That struck me as a pretty significant leap, the way the administration views monetary policy, that it should be sort of subject to sort of popular vote.

Scott AlvarezGUEST
Yeah, I think that, you know, from the beginning, President Trump and Vice President Vance have both believed that the president should be in control of monetary policy and that that reflects the view of the people because the people elect the president.
Meet the Press NOW — August 26
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Kelly O'DonnellHOST
What is your sense of the seriousness of this allegation and how it came into, uh, the decision-making process?

Scott AlvarezGUEST
So I agree with Greg and with Brian Earl both saying earlier that this is part of the president's plan to try to take control of the Federal Reserve and get the interest rate policy that he wants.

Scott AlvarezGUEST
That said, what Lisa Cook is facing is allegations that she has not had the opportunity to respond to, that, um, that she's committed fraud.

Scott AlvarezGUEST
And on that basis, the president is trying to say there is cause to remove her.

Scott AlvarezGUEST
Uh, we don't know what the facts are and whether there was any fraud involved at all.
Kelly O'DonnellHOST
Uh, but is it your sense that, um, this is something where, um, he's correct in saying that simply the facts of her having this documentation are enough, or do you think that is still to be determined?