President Donald Trump fired another lawless Obama appointee. Should anyone be surprised she works at the Justice Department?
WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump fired the
federal government's top lawyer Sally Yates on Monday after she took the
extraordinarily rare step of defying the White House and refused to defend new
travel restrictions targeting seven Muslim-majority nations.
Yates said late on Monday that the Justice Department would not defend
in court Trump's directive that put a 120-day hold on allowing refugees into
the country, an indefinite ban on refugees from Syria and a 90-day bar on
citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
Yates said she did not believe
defending the order would be "consistent with this institution's solemn
obligation to always seek justice and stand for what is right."
Hours later, she was fired. The White
House said Yates "has betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to
enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United
States" and portrayed her actions as political.
It’s going to take a long time to the drain the
swamp of these traitors.
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