Jan 31, 2017 · Soapbox. Why Trump Had to Fire Sally Yates. The acting attorney general should have given the president her best advice, then resigned if he didn’t listen.
Jan 31, 2017 · Trump fired Sally Yates, the acting attorney general after she said she would not defend an executive order the president signed last Friday.
Feb 15, 2022 · US Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned 46 United States Attorney positions on March 10, 2017. These positions were appointed to him by President Donald Trump as Attorney General on March 10, 2017.
Jan 31, 2017 · President Donald Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates after she ordered Justice Dept. lawyers to stop defending Mr. Trump’s executive order banning new arrivals to the U.S. from seven ...
United States Attorney General | |
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Incumbent Merrick Garland since March 11, 2021 | |
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Style | Mr. Attorney General (informal) The Honorable (formal) |
Member of | Cabinet National Security Council |
A native of Atlanta, Sally Yates studied law at the University of Georgia. After graduating from university, she practiced commercial litigation at a law firm in Atlanta before entering into the public service sphere in September 1989 as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Georgia.
Sally Yates was nominated for Deputy Attorney General by former President Obama in January 2015 and was confirmed by the Senate for the position in May 2015.
On January 20, as the U.S. administration changed hands from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, Sally Yates was appointed as the country's acting Attorney General. She was to remain at the post until President Trump's nominee for the position, Jeff Sessions, was confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
As Attorney General, it was Yates' responsibility to ensure that the laws and Constitution of the U.S. were being upheld. It wasn't her responsibility to indulge unwarranted executive orders being issued by the White House.
Within hours of Yates' declaration opposing Trump's order, the President fired her and appointed Dana J. Boente, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, as acting Attorney General.
President Donald Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates Monday night for “refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States ,” the White House said.
Dana Boente, US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, was sworn in at 9 p.m. ET, per an administration official. A few hours later, Boente issued a statement rescinding Yates’ order, instructing DOJ lawyers to “defend the lawful orders of our President.”. Trump didn’t call Yates to dismiss her, she was informed by hand-delivered letter, ...
Vice President Mike Pence, right, administers the oath of office to Dan Coats, the new director of national intelligence, on Thursday, March 16. Coats was accompanied by his wife, Marsha. He was confirmed by the Senate the day before.
New Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke signs an official document after he was confirmed by the Senate on Wednesday, March 1. The former congressman from Montana was joined by his wife, Lolita, as well as Vice President Mike Pence, US Sen. Steve Daines and Montana Attorney General Tim Fox.
Zinke, a former Navy SEAL, is sworn in before his confirmation hearing in January. He pledged to review Obama administration actions that limit oil and gas drilling in Alaska, and he said he does not believe climate change is a hoax.
Holding the Bible is Pruitt's wife, Marlyn, and they were joined by their son, Cade. Pruitt, the former attorney general of Oklahoma, was confirmed by the Senate 52-46.
Pruitt testifies at his confirmation hearing in January. Pruitt said he doesn't believe climate change is a hoax, but he didn't indicate he would take swift action to address environmental issues that may contribute to climate change. He said there is still debate over how to respond.
Yates was fired by President Donald Trump after 10 days as acting attorney general when she declined to enforce his executive order on travel and immigration.
Yates said she felt it was critical to get the information to the White House "in part because the vice president was unknowingly making false statements to the public," and also because Flynn was compromised, given that the Russians knew he was misleading other officials.
Sally Yates details warning Trump about Michael Flynn. May 9, 201702:39. Yates said she felt it was critical to get the information to the White House "in part because the vice president was unknowingly making false statements to the public," and also because Flynn was compromised, given that the Russians knew he was misleading other officials.
In other developments, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told senators he had not been aware of the FBI’s counter-intelligence investigation into possible collusion between Trump associates and the Russian election interference operation.
Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates testified Monday that she told the White House that then-National Security Adviser Mike Flynn could be "blackmailed by the Russians," because he misled the vice president about his "problematic" conduct.