Federal Judge in Cook Case Undaunted by Trump’s Ire: The Brief

THE US JUDGE presiding over President Donald Trump’s unprecedented effort to oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over unproven allegations of mortgage fraud grew up in family of lawyers — and in four years on the bench, her rulings have been upheld on appeal nearly 95% of the time, Keith L. Alexander reports.

• Growing up in Detroit, Jia Cobb often spent time at her father’s law office, just as her father did with his father, who was one of the first Black graduates of the University of Chicago Law School. A Biden appointee to the federal district court in ...