Breaking: Trump fires acting AG for refusing to enforce travel ban

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@POTUS has named Dana Boente, US Attorney for the Eastern District of VA as Acting Attorney General. Sally Yates has been relieved.
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Sally Yates (Obama appointee acting as Attorney General) sent out orders today to not defend the immigration EO. Trump just fired her

You don’t go against your boss and expect to stick around.
 
She was an Obama holdover and couldn’t resist taking a poke at the new guy. :cool:
 
gilliam said:
@POTUS has named Dana Boente, US Attorney for the Eastern District of VA as Acting Attorney General. Sally Yates has been relieved.
twitter.com/PressSec/status/826252730389954560

Sally Yates (Obama appointee acting as Attorney General) sent out orders today to not defend the immigration EO. Trump just fired her

You don’t go against your boss and expect to stick around.
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She had character. She put the law above her own position. A profile in courage.
 
gilliam said:
@POTUS has named Dana Boente, US Attorney for the Eastern District of VA as Acting Attorney General. Sally Yates has been relieved.
twitter.com/PressSec/status/826252730389954560

Sally Yates (Obama appointee acting as Attorney General) sent out orders today to not defend the immigration EO. Trump just fired her

You don’t go against your boss and expect to stick around.
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She couldn’t resist, thus smoked out and got the sack. Are we seeing the draining of the swamp in progress? 👍😉
 
gilliam said:
@POTUS has named Dana Boente, US Attorney for the Eastern District of VA as Acting Attorney General. Sally Yates has been relieved.
twitter.com/PressSec/status/826252730389954560

Sally Yates (Obama appointee acting as Attorney General) sent out orders today to not defend the immigration EO. Trump just fired her

You don’t go against your boss and expect to stick around.
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She wasn’t going to be sticking around anyway, regardless of what she did. The only thing that is a little unusual about this is the timing. Normally you wait for the new AG to be confirmed.
 
dvdjs said:
She had character. She put the law above her own position. A profile in courage.
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I agree, but I would have resigned. Seems a little high drama to force the firing, but we are in a high drama age. I agree that she is standing up for something, and that people should be applauded for standing up for what they believe in. I’m sure she won’t be the last.
 
CHRISTINE77 said:
Yes - so long liberals!
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Now that Yates is fired, it will not be be possible for foreign surveillance warrants to be signed until Sessions is confirmed.
Mr. Trump has the authority to fire Ms. Yates, but as the top Senate-confirmed official at the Justice Department, she is the only one authorized to sign foreign surveillance warrants, an essential function at the department.
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“For as long as I am the acting attorney general, the Department of Justice will not present arguments in defense of the executive order, unless and until I become convinced that it is appropriate to do so,” she wrote.
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Thank God Yates was fired. Gambling with our lives for cheap political gains. Every nation has a right to decide who comes into our country and who could be a risk to our security. This is not unreasonable. Trump has the U.S. statutory and Constitutional law on his side, and Sally Yates knew it but ignored the role of the AG. She left Trump with no choice, she had to be fired.
 
Thorolfr said:
Now that Yates is fired, it will not be be possible for foreign surveillance warrants to be signed until Sessions is confirmed.
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She is fired and replaced. She is not indispensable. She should have resigned, she didn’t, perhaps wanting to be a political martyr out of it. It is the position, not the person that is important.
 
Reuben_J said:
She is fired and replaced. She is not indispensable. She should have resigned, she didn’t, perhaps wanting to be a political martyr out of it. It is the position, not the person that is important.
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She’s been replaced, but her replacement is not someone who has been confirmed by the Senate, so he cannot sign foreign surveillance warrants.
 
Thorolfr said:
She’s been replaced, but her replacement is not someone who has been confirmed by the Senate, so he cannot sign foreign surveillance warrants.
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I am not sure about that. The US Attorneys are Senate confirmed, and he was confirmed for that job a couple years ago. Of course, they are not Senate confirmed for that purpose. So it is not clear to me if he could sign FISA warrants or not, or if there is anyone else left at DOJ main that could do so. We have not been in this situation before, so its kinda new ground. Like lots of stuff lately.
 
dvdjs said:
She had character. She put the law above her own position. A profile in courage.
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Just like those Christian bakeries had character?

Also, nothing President Trump has done is unlawful.
 
SuperLuigi said:
Also, nothing President Trump has done is unlawful.
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That’s for the courts to decide. The fact the parts of his executive order were stayed already in federal courts, the judges in question probably believe that those parts will not be found to be legal.
 
  1. New Acting AG can sign FISA Applications;
  2. Trump has both U.S. statutory and Constitutional law on his side.
 
kat07 said:
  1. Trump has both U.S. statutory and Constitutional law on his side.
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Last year, Obama’s immigration plan was blocked by the courts:
(CNN)In a crushing blow to the White House, the Supreme Court announced Thursday it was evenly divided in a case concerning President Barack Obama’s controversial executive actions on immigration.
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The one-sentence ruling, issued without comment or dissent, means that the programs will remain blocked from going into effect, and the issue will return to the lower court. It is exceedingly unlikely the programs will go into effect for the remainder of the Obama presidency.
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cnn.com/2016/06/23/politics/immigration-supreme-court/

So Mr. Trumps immigration plans could also be blocked by the courts.
 
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