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.....
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Hang her from the yardarm. Trump has the Constitution behind him!
Hammer, meet nail. Outstanding job by the Senator.
Wonder why we need to drain the swamp? Here is one piece of evidence.
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!!!
She must think that people from other countries have the same rights as US citizens.
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.
She is in line with ‘Justice’ Ginsburg. Everybody else is better than any American. Below pond scum.
Trump was absolutely right to kick her a** out.
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?
Drop her off in little Mogadishu in Minnesota. Those “tolerant” muslims will make short work of her.
I heard Rush mention that only 3 republicans even bothered to show up.
...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.
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.”
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.
No, Graham, Grassley, Cornyn, Cruz, Sasse and Kennedy were there. Lee, ?Flake and I forget who else weren’t.
I don’t want Muslims here. If that’s discriminating so be it.
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.
I don’t want Muslims here. If that’s discriminating so be it.
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