Trump Fires Acting Attorney General
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Acting AG defied following the law for purely political reasons.
Obama would have done the same damn thing to a Bush appointee in reverse scenario, but he wouldn't have had to because the nominations were confirmed in a timely manner.
Define this timely confirmation process... you can start with the last nominee and work backwards if you like.
David Allen can you not just say meh she must not have wanted her job to give yourself a little bit of credibility? I guess you said Nixon not Hitler so you can be considered moderate based on our post reality standards.
You old enough to remember the Saturday Night Massacre? Nixon move to fire the AG. Unusual to say the least. Couple it with the threat to State Dept Dissent Cable signees. Quite the day for team Trump.
Get those disloyal democrats out of their damn positions so they can't continue to work against progress.
"You're Fired!"
"You're Fired!"
Close I'm 35 going on a very crusty 82.
She got fired for not doing her job. I'll look up the Nixon thing though
The AG grabbed a sign and made a political statement, deserved to be fired. She is gonna make a helluva women's protester, Trump should have appointed her to be ambassador to Syria.
You might want to also look at what "her job" actually is...
AG isn't Trump's or any President's personal lawyer.
The job takes an oath to uphold the law and the Constitution.
If she really felt this EO violated the law and the Constitution and was willing to lose her job as a result of that belief, more power to her.
Trump's perfectly within his power as well.
The job takes an oath to uphold the law and the Constitution.
If she really felt this EO violated the law and the Constitution and was willing to lose her job as a result of that belief, more power to her.
Trump's perfectly within his power as well.
Does this apply only to the ones Trump specifically retained or all of them?Get those disloyal democrats out of their damn positions so they can't continue to work against progress.
"You're Fired!"
Close... the oath of office starts with some bit about "Defending the Constitution " or some such none sense...
You sure that was a law she didn't think was defensible? You might want to check your facts...
And if she's a political hack, she deserved to have her unprofessional ass fired. Right?
Sure.
Just to be clear though, she was probably getting fired as soon as Sessions was confirmed anyway. That's the way of the world at the US Atty's Office.
And guess who finally Nixon found that lacked the stones to stand up to him, and assisted in the cover up?
Robert Bork. The wingnuts always scream how he was treated unfairly in his SCOTUS nomination, but never mention how he was the lone indian left that actually tried to help Nixon cover it up.
Nixon Schmixon. He was a boy scout compared to your heroes the Clintons.
I like how Bill governed - not without faults obviously but a freaking genius compared to the knucklehead calling shots now.
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Bill wasn't bad. But he governed in a largely pre-terror bubble economy where he did not face the tests the next 3 guys would.
short memory? will give you "pre-internet" - social media and alt-news would have destroyed him, rest though is incorrect.
The American people who gave him an electoral landslide to do the job they want him to do.
A minority of the American people. Most Americans didn't vote for him. He lost the popular vote by 2,800,000.
Who said I was counting them? They were not the smart ones who sent president Trump to Washington. Even with all of the illegals in California voting for Hillary Clinton you still lost. I know that must make for a special kind of butthurt.
The acting AG, along with every justice department employee, are part of the Executive branch. Every one of them knows that they must carry out the policies of the POTUS, in whom the Constitution of the U.S. invests ALL of the executive power of the U.S. government. If they find those policies too egregious to carry out or believe that they violate the Constitution they must resign. To stay on and work against the President is sabotage.
Yates was fully aware of this. She was also fully aware of which way the political winds are blowing amongst her lefty brethren and was planning on leaving imminently at any rate. She knew the cache that her grandstanding would bring and chose to do it rather than doing what all Justice Department officials know is the right thing to do when they have such a strong disagreement with the President's policies.
Yates was fully aware of this. She was also fully aware of which way the political winds are blowing amongst her lefty brethren and was planning on leaving imminently at any rate. She knew the cache that her grandstanding would bring and chose to do it rather than doing what all Justice Department officials know is the right thing to do when they have such a strong disagreement with the President's policies.
