Another Obama appointee bites the dust!

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This is the Yates’ letter that sparked her firing:

“My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts,” Yates wrote in the letter to lawyers at the Justice Department, according to The New York Times.

In addition, 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. 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.

Why couldn't Jeff Sessions be "Acting Att'y General"?

Good!

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 2h2 hours ago

The Democrats are delaying my cabinet picks for purely political reasons. They have nothing going but to obstruct. Now have an Obama A.G.

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I really really love our President!

Trump's nominee for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions, has not been confirmed and no other senior Justice Department officials have been appointed, firing her was expected to cause significant problems within the department.

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I know he hasn't been confirmed. But why couldn't he be "acting" AG. Just move him in there and start giving orders. Who's going to stop him?

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There is some interesting info in ^^there about the Sessions situation...

In 2017, Democrats see President-elect Trump as an existential threat to liberal democracy, as much because of his policy proposals — from special scrutiny of immigrants from Muslim-majority countries to restrictions on voting — as his leadership style.

And on those issues, there is little if any daylight between Trump and Sessions.

Sessions has long been the most outspoken opponent of immigration — both legal and unauthorized — in the United States Senate. He has shown ambivalence about preserving voting access.

There was also an added wrinkle in Sessions’s history that made it, perhaps, a little more palatable to take a stand against a longtime senator: He’d been rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee before.

In 1986, Sessions (then an assistant US attorney) was nominated to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan. But after a contentious confirmation hearing scrutinized both Sessions’s civil rights record in court and his personal behavior toward black colleagues, the Republican-led committee did something that violated the norms of the time: It voted against his confirmation. (Sessions was the second nominee to be denied a judgeship in 50 years.)

This presented an awkward parallel when he was nominated for attorney general: Was Jeff Sessions “too racist” for the GOP of Ronald Reagan but not the GOP of Donald Trump

Sessions will be the first senator in recorded history to see one of his own colleagues testify against him: Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) will be part of a panel (along with Georgia Democrat Rep. John Lewis) raising concerns about Sessions’s record toward the end of the committee hearing.

Last Edited by Abi ~ on 01/30/2017 10:12 PM

In fact DT could appoint himself "acting" AG. They're all his employees now. He's going to fire them all anyway. And if they don't obey fuck up their pensions...