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'Who Appointed You to the Supreme Court?': Senator Grills Yates For Defying Trump Travel Ban
Fox News Insider ^ | May 8, 2017 | Your World with Neil Cavuto

Posted on 05/08/2017 2:59:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

In a hearing centered on Russian interference in the election, one senator took the opportunity to question the former attorney general who was fired for refusing to defend President Trump's travel ban.

Senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) asked former acting Attorney General Sally Yates why she refused to defend Trump's initial executive order barring travel from several Mideast nations.

"I believed any argument [the Justice Department] would have to make in its defense would not be grounded in the truth," Yates said.

"We would have to argue that it had nothing to do with religion," she said.

Kennedy asked whether there was no reasonable argument that could be made to defend the order any other way.....

(Excerpt) Read more at insider.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: immigration; islam; muslims; terrorism; trump; yates
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1 posted on 05/08/2017 2:59:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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"Yates said she believed the intent of the order was to discriminate against Muslims trying to come to the United States."

This is such flagrant libtard b.s. The intent of the order is to prevent TERRORISTS from coming to the USA. The fact that the 6 countries named have both a lot of terrorists and a lot of Muslims does not mean that the order was constructed with the "INTENT" to "discriminate" against Muslims. It is intended to discriminate against TERRORISTS.... and we have ever right and reason to discriminate against terrorists!!!

Liberals like Yates are moronic scum.
2 posted on 05/08/2017 3:09:44 PM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hang her from the yardarm. Trump has the Constitution behind him!


3 posted on 05/08/2017 3:10:07 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hammer, meet nail. Outstanding job by the Senator.


4 posted on 05/08/2017 3:11:49 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wonder why we need to drain the swamp? Here is one piece of evidence.


5 posted on 05/08/2017 3:13:37 PM PDT by Enten (I don't have islamophobia...I do have islamonausea)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Clapper/Yates Senate hearing today was a 100% waste of taxpayer money!!! Both these clowns belong in the forever cesspool of failed public servants!!!


6 posted on 05/08/2017 3:14:08 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Enchante

She must think that people from other countries have the same rights as US citizens.


7 posted on 05/08/2017 3:14:26 PM PDT by shelterguy
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I was waiting for him to say....do you think anyone from anywhere has the inherent right to come to the United States? Of course it never happened.


8 posted on 05/08/2017 3:18:41 PM PDT by sheana
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She is in line with ‘Justice’ Ginsburg. Everybody else is better than any American. Below pond scum.


9 posted on 05/08/2017 3:19:42 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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She's got a lot of crap. She was bitten by the "Power Bug"...for at least a few days.

Trump was absolutely right to kick her a** out.

10 posted on 05/08/2017 3:21:23 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Liberals just live in an alternate reality. There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. This order affected fewer than 100 million and them only temporarily (assuming they would pass a vetting process when established). And in all of those countries terrorism is endemic. So, how is this facially anti-Muslim?


11 posted on 05/08/2017 3:22:19 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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Drop her off in little Mogadishu in Minnesota. Those “tolerant” muslims will make short work of her.


12 posted on 05/08/2017 3:23:50 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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"...100% waste of taxpayer money"

I heard Rush mention that only 3 republicans even bothered to show up.

13 posted on 05/08/2017 3:24:57 PM PDT by Baynative ( Someone's going to have to pay for these carbon emissions, so it might as well be you.)
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...She must think that people from other countries have the same rights as US citizens...

Law schools have been teaching for decades that the Constitution means what a fringe Lunatic liberal lawyer thinks it means at the time. It’s the connotation of what the words say that’s important. Not what their actual, literal meaning is. Original intent versus an ever changing liberal interpretation of the Constitution.
And that’s the path to ruin.


14 posted on 05/08/2017 3:27:37 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning)
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Even if he did bar/ban Muslims for religious reasons, I don’t see where that’s a problem. So sick of this PC Muslim worship that’s being shoved down our throats. I think he CAN ban Muslims — “... ANY CLASS OF ALIENS...” is in the law that gives him that right. Muslims are a “class of aliens”.

Section 212(f), states: “Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of ANY class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.”


15 posted on 05/08/2017 3:28:52 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("If we cannot control our tempers, what has grace done for us?" Charles Spurgeon)
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she exposed herself. she considered herself a one woman Supreme Court, the head of the Ministry of Truth all rolled into one. more than that, she exposed that she was part of the common thread of “reasoning” that connected her office to the 9th Circuit, Washington state AG, etc-as if there were collusion. they all referred to this as pretty much a ban based on religion even though that wasn’t part of the EO. like deep state -now extended - and rabidly anti-Trump- all going way beyond the limits of their authority.


16 posted on 05/08/2017 3:32:32 PM PDT by avital2
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No, Graham, Grassley, Cornyn, Cruz, Sasse and Kennedy were there. Lee, ?Flake and I forget who else weren’t.


17 posted on 05/08/2017 3:35:40 PM PDT by txhurl (BOOM BOOM! - what is it - :)
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I don’t want Muslims here. If that’s discriminating so be it.


18 posted on 05/08/2017 3:48:39 PM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates should now be relegated to the dung heap of departed, moronic, imbecilic, idiotic appointments made by B-Stinking-O, before he himself was (thank heaven) expelled from office to the stench-filled dung heap of the hideous side of history.


19 posted on 05/08/2017 3:50:02 PM PDT by Clearly Right (Except when I'm driving, which I tend to do on the left side of the vehicle.)
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I don’t want Muslims here. If that’s discriminating so be it.


20 posted on 05/08/2017 3:53:21 PM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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