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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRyan Lizza's Interview With Sally Yates.....
in the New Yorker. Interesting read and some interesting insights into Ms. Yates......
Why Sally Yates Stood Up to Trump
...Yates went back to her office, where she weighed her options: she would either resign or refuse to defend the order. She told me, But heres the thing: resignation would have protected my own personal integrity, because I wouldnt have been part of this, but I believed, and I still think, that I had an obligation to also protect the integrity of the Department of Justice. And that meant that D.O.J. doesnt go into court on something as fundamental as religious freedom, making an argument about something that I was not convinced was grounded in truth. She went on, In fact, I thought, based on all the evidence I had, that it was based on religion. And then I thought back to Jim Crow laws, or literacy tests. Those didnt say that the purpose was to prevent African-Americans from voting. But thats what the purpose was.
She continued, This is a defining, founding principle of our country: religious freedom. How can the Department of Justice go in and defend something that so significantly undermines that, when were not convinced its true?
Yates then wrote a statement, in which she concluded, 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 called the senior Trump appointee into her office and handed him a copy. As he read it, he thought, Oh, my God, the Presidents gonna fire you for this.
read it here: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/why-sally-yates-stood-up-to-trump
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Ryan Lizza's Interview With Sally Yates..... (Original Post)
Laxman
May 2017
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(7,182 posts)1. Amazing Profile in Courage
DK504
(3,847 posts)2. I wish Meuller would hire her for the investigation of the Traitor.