Posted on 01/30/2017 8:12:33 PM PST by Texas Fossil
President Donald Trump fired acting US Attorney General Sally Yates after she defied him on his controversial executive order on immigrants and refugees, according to a statement White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer issued Monday night.
"The acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, has betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States," the statement read in part.
Trump named Dana Boente, a US district attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to serve in Yates's place until the president's attorney general appointee Jeff Sessions is confirmed.
Earlier Monday, Yates denounced Trump's executive order in a letter to Justice Department lawyers, saying it may not be lawful.
"I am responsible for ensuring that the positions we take in court remain consistent with this institution’s solemn obligation to always seek justice and stand for what is right," Yates said in the letter.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Some things don’t last forever.
I wonder how many military officers were fired in the obama years for reasons that had nothing to do with national security concerns?
“Reality is a stone-cold beyotch. “
Yes, it is.
She is referred to as Ms. Yates and has a husband and 2 children. What am I missing?
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Maybe her husband is MR. Smith and childrens names Yates-Smith???
Yep...trump had to fire her but she has made herself a martyr...
business insider ruined themselves since they quit the comments section....the only thing worth reading
Just imagining what might have been going through the acting AG’s mind when he lowered the boom. Reagan fired the airtraffic controllers when they went on strike. Even Truman dismissed MacArthur. They and others probably thought they were indispensable—or at least insulated to that measure. The AG might have thought there was nothing to lose since another Obama appointee was right behind her. Trump did the right thing.
1 would be more than is excusable.
“She and her husband Comer have two children.”
https://www.justice.gov/dag/meet-deputy-attorney-general
Very strange. But this is a product of the ObamaNation.
I think it was a set up to get the leftist savages stirred up and agitated some more.
Well yes, this was her plan, obviously.
attention whoring is what the libs do best.
And BTW, what exactly is their plan? Other than looking like obnoxious assholes to the rest of the country? What is their alternative plan for immigration? The economy? Crime?
I mean, just screaming and crying and calling everyone they hate a Nazi is not exactly a winning strategy.
She will be a martyr only to the Looney Left and the MSM Press_titutes.
It’s ‘The Peter Principle’ in action.
(She’d, no doubt, prefer it be called ‘The Vagina Verity’...)
Maybe they can suspend her law license. Good enough for me.
look - she set herself up to be a hero. And will get a big payday at one of the Ivys.
This was a good plan on her side.
CNN was all over themselves about how heroic she was
I’m trying to figure out what they’re doing to Trump that they hadn’t already done to any past Republican since Nixon. Trump knows this and is acting accordingly. Their barbs are weaker for all their hyperbolic bluster of the past 40-some years.
cnn has no ratings or credibility.
let her be a hero in their bubble. we’ll be here in the real world where Trump is doing his job.
My crystal ball says: Signs point to yes...
Since was fired can she go straight into private practice?
Ecclesiastes 5:8 If you see oppression of the poor and denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be shocked at the sight; for one official watches over another official, and there are higher officials over them.
God Help the U.S.
We’ve somehow survived 8 years of this Insanity!
We have a leader at the helm who will deal with these vermin undermining the nation.
It is our duty to expose the lying press and back him to the hilt.
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