{"id":18146,"date":"2026-01-24T16:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T16:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/supreme-court-drawswhoswho-of-spectatorsduring-high-stakes-term\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T16:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T16:22:25","slug":"supreme-court-drawswhoswho-of-spectatorsduring-high-stakes-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/supreme-court-drawswhoswho-of-spectatorsduring-high-stakes-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court drawswho\u2019swho of spectatorsduring high-stakes term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Fed board of governors member Lisa Cook&nbsp;faced a choice ahead of this week&rsquo;s&nbsp;Supreme Court oral argument: show up,&nbsp;or sit it out?&nbsp; They&nbsp;chose visibility,&nbsp;forming&nbsp;part of a&nbsp;crowd of economic and legal heavyweights&nbsp;in&nbsp;the justices&rsquo;&nbsp;lines&nbsp;of&nbsp;sight&nbsp;as they&nbsp;mulled&nbsp;the future of the Fed&rsquo;s protections from the executive branch.&nbsp;&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5703757-powell-cook-trump-federal-reserve\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Fed board of governors member Lisa Cook&nbsp;faced a choice ahead of this week&rsquo;s&nbsp;Supreme Court oral argument: show up,&nbsp;or sit it out?&nbsp; They&nbsp;chose visibility,&nbsp;forming&nbsp;part of a&nbsp;crowd of economic and legal heavyweights&nbsp;in&nbsp;the justices&rsquo;&nbsp;lines&nbsp;of&nbsp;sight&nbsp;as they&nbsp;mulled&nbsp;the future of the Fed&rsquo;s protections from the executive branch.&nbsp;&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}