Trump v. Cook · ¶82

On the equities, the Government has not identified any injury whatsoever beyond the harm that a President purportedly suffers when a Governor of the Board of the Federal Reserve exercises power “over [his] objection.” Application to Stay Preliminary Injunction 36; see also post, at 568–569, 595 (Thomas, J., dissenting from denial of application for stay) (insisting that the Government is harmed simply because the District Court “allow[ed] a removed officer to continue exercising the executive power” (internal quotation marks omitted)). But “that assertion is just another species of the far-fetched contention that the President [is] injured whenever he is prevented from doing as he wishes.” Orr, 607 U. S., at ––– (Jackson, J., dissenting). As such, it does not amount to the sort of tangible harm that warrants setting the interim status of a dispute in the President's favor.

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