Sally Yates. Former deputy AG under Obama and a year under the orange monkey
Trump dismissed Yates for insubordination on January 30, after she instructed the
Justice Department not to make legal arguments defending
Executive Order 13769, which temporarily banned the admission of refugees and barred travel from certain
Muslim-majority countries (later to include North Korea) on the grounds that
terrorists were using the U.S. refugee resettlement program to enter the country. The ban was labeled as a "Muslim ban" by both Trump and his campaign's website.
[1][2] Rather than defend it, Yates stated the order was neither defensible in court nor consistent with the Constitution.
[3][4] Although large portions of the order were initially blocked by federal courts, the
Supreme Court ultimately upheld a revised version.
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