AXIOS (Courtenay Brown) - White House revives unprecedented effort to remove Fed governor Lisa Cook
The Trump administration has launched a new effort to remove Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook , notifying her that President Trump is considering her removal and giving her 21 days to respond to mortgage fraud allegations in a letter obtained by Axios. Why it matters: The Supreme Court this year blocked Trump's first attempt to remove Cook, finding that the Fed official was not given notice or a chance to respond. - The new letter seeks to satisfy those requirements in what remains an unprecedented effort to fire a sitting Federal Reserve governor. - News of the letter, dated Wednesday, was first reported by ABC News. Driving the news: The letter revives the same mortgage-fraud allegations that formed the basis of Trump's earlier effort…