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Trump has fired the acting attorney general who ordered Justice Dept. not to defend president’s travel ban
President Trump fired acting attorney general Sally Yates on Monday night after she ordered Justice Department lawyers not to defend his immigration order temporarily banning entry into the United States for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries and refugees from around the world.
In a news release, the White House said Yates had “betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States.” Trump named in her place Dana Boente, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Boente said he would enforce the president’s directive until he was replaced by Trump’s attorney general nominee, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala).
Yes, I will,” he said in a brief phone interview with The Washington Post. “I was enforcing it this afternoon. Our career department employees were defending the action in court, and I expect that’s what they’ll do tomorrow, appropriately and properly.”
Later Monday, he formally rescinded Yates’s order and ordered Justice Department employees “to do our sworn duty and to defend the lawful orders of our President.”
The move came just hours after Yates ordered the Justice Department not to defend Trump’s immigration order, declaring in a memo that she was not convinced the order is lawful. Yates wrote that, as the leader of the Justice Department, she must ensure that the department’s position is “legally defensible” and “consistent with this institution’s solemn obligation to always seek justice and stand for what is right.”
“At present, I am not convinced that the defense of the Executive Order is consistent with these responsibilities nor am I convinced that the Executive Order is lawful,” Yates wrote. She wrote that “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.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/na ... bfdda6ba8fMeine Hochachtung für diese Frau, die da mal so einfach das Risiko eingegangen ist, ihren Job zu verlieren! Und eine Analyse/Interpretation der WE-Ereignisse mit weiteren Fakten/News, die von vielen für ziemlich spot-on und durchaus möglich gehalten wird.
Die einzige Interpretationsunklarheit bleibt letztlich, ob Trumps Handlung aus Schwäche und Dummheit oder Stärke und intelligenter Berechnung geschehen, was das Endergebnis natürlich nicht verändert. Bei ersterem hätte ,man allerdings noch die Chance, dass er aus dieser Dummheit heraus irgendwann nen Fehler macht, der ihn dann wirklich den Kragen/das Amt kostet.
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Trial Balloon for a Coup?
Analyzing the news of the past 24 hours
The theme of this morning’s news updates from Washington is additional clarity emerging, rather than meaningful changes in the field. But this clarity is enough to give us a sense of what we just saw happen, and why it happened the way it did.
I’ll separate what’s below into the raw news reports and analysis; you may also find these two pieces from yesterday (heavily referenced below) to be useful.
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