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Acting Attorney General refuses to enforce immigration ban. Trump correctly fires her immediately



Yesterday, we learned that the Acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, had refused to defend President Trump's immigration ban because she "wasn't sure" if it was constitutional.  It is, but let's put that argument aside.  Yates had three choices. She could defend the EO as written, quit, or stay in her position and defy her boss.  She chose the latter. ...And she was, like most people who thumb their nose at their superiors, fired immediately.
The official statement from the Trump administration is as follows:
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. This order was approved as to form and legality by the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel. Ms. Yates is an Obama Administration appointee who is weak on borders and very weak on illegal immigration. It is time to get serious about protecting our country. Calling for tougher vetting for individuals travelling from seven dangerous places is not extreme. It is reasonable and necessary to protect our country. Tonight, President Trump relieved Ms. Yates of her duties and subsequently named Dana Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to serve as Acting Attorney General until Senator Jeff Sessions is finally confirmed by the Senate, where he is being wrongly held up by Democrat senators for strictly political reasons. “I am honored to serve President Trump in this role until Senator Sessions is confirmed. I will defend and enforce the laws of our country to ensure that our people and our nation are protected,” said Dana Boente, Acting Attorney General.

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Of course, the left launched straight into one of their now-boring bouts of calculated histrionics. "Trump is a totalitarian. Trump is a monster.  Trump is Hitler." We've heard it all before. "Trump will be the undoing of all that is good and just in America, and his firing of Sally Yates is just the latest example." Their cries are so loud and abrasive that they might even be compelling ...if they were based - in any way - in reality. The fact is, President Trump was absolutely right to fire Yates.   Yates is not a member of the Judiciary.  It's not her job to decide what she "thinks" is constitutional and what isn't. Her position is strictly within the purview of the Executive branch, and her job is to enforce and defend the law as written.  If she can't - or more accurately won't - do that job, the only option is to terminate her employment.  End of story. As the editors of the National Review put it:
It is a very simple proposition. Our Constitution vests all executive power — not some of it, all of it — in the president of the United States. Executive-branch officials do not have their own power. They are delegated by the president to execute his power. If they object to the president’s policies, their choice is clear: salute and enforce the president’s directives, or honorably resign. There is no third way. No one knows this better than high-ranking officials of the Department of Justice. That is why President Trump was right to fire Acting Attorney General Sally Yates.

The Dems are already fundraising off this, and you can bet the media will parrot their talking points. Schumer has called this a "Monday night massacre" but his hyperbole is laughably off the mark. If there's fault to be found with Trump, it's that he didn't fire and replace this Obama-appointee on day one. Why was allowed to languish until she became a problem, particularly when we all know how politicized Obama's DOJ had become? Better late than never, though. Kudos to Trump for being decisive once the problem presented itself. Dana Boente, US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, was sworn in last night as Yates' replacement. He immediately issued a directive that reversed Yates' stance, ordering DOJ legal eagles to "defend the lawful orders of our President."


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