What can Congress do, though, if President Donald Trump wins his battle to remove members of the Fed’s Board of Governors? Let us imagine the worst (but likely) future and assume that the Supreme Court would back the president, either by holding that statutory protections limiting removals by requiring “cause” are unconstitutional, or by holding that anything the president says is cause is enough. (To be clear, I think the court would be wrong to say either of these, but I think it quite possible it will do so.) If this were to happen, Congress would be hard-pressed to write a new statute that creates pre-termination hearings or otherwise seeks to limit the power of the president that would satisfy the court’s aggressive support for presidential removals.