Why Yates Had to Go...

[WaitingFor2020]

God forbid anyone in the Trump administration following their conscience, instead of their puppetmaster.

Why Yates Had to Go

It is a very simple proposition. Our Constitution vests all executive power — not some of it, all of it — in the president of the United States. Executive-branch officials do not have their own power. They are delegated by the president to execute his power. If they object to the president’s policies, their choice is clear: salute and enforce the president’s directives, or honorably resign. There is no third way.


No one knows this better than high-ranking officials of the Department of Justice. That is why President Trump was right to fire Acting Attorney General Sally Yates.


Over the weekend, President Trump issued an executive order temporarily restricting the admission into the United States of aliens from various Muslim-majority countries, as well as aliens from Syria and elsewhere who are claiming refugee status. Naturally, this has triggered protests by Democrats and the Left.


They erroneously claim that Trump’s executive order violates the Constitution, statutory law, American tradition, and human decency.


For inexplicable reasons, the new president left Yates in place to run the Justice Department in anticipation of the confirmation of Senator Jeff Sessions. A faithful Obama-appointed progressive, Yates obviously knew which way the political wind was blowing in her tribe.


Like most Democrats, Yates objects to the president’s executive order. Fair enough. But she is not a political operative, she was a Justice Department official — the highest such official. If her opposition to the president’s policy was as deeply held as she says, her choice was clear: enforce the president’s policy or quit.


Instead, she chose insubordination: Knowing she would be out the moment Senator Sessions is confirmed, she announced on Monday night that the Justice Department would not enforce the president’s order. She did not issue this statement on the grounds that the order is illegal. She declined to take a definitive position on that question. She rested her decision, rather, on her disagreement with the justice of the order. Now, she’ll be a left-wing hero, influential beyond her heretofore status as a nameless bureaucrat. But she had to go.

To make an analogy, there are many federal judges who oppose abortion. They apply Roe v. Wade even though they disagree with it intensely, because their duty is to obey superior courts. As every official in the Justice Department knows, if one disagrees with the law one is called upon to apply, or the policy one is bound to enforce, one is free to resign. Staying on while undermining government policy is not an act of courage. It is an act of sabotage.


It was foolish of President Trump to leave officials such as Acting Attorney General Yates in place. The president has issued a raft of executive orders in his first eight days. His obvious intent is to change governance significantly, which means he needs entirely new personnel. Yates never should have been in the position to undertake her grandstanding in the first place — but at least that particular error has now been corrected.

Read more at: Why Yates Had to Go

This opinion piece is just flat wrong.


Separation of Powers
The division of state and federal government into three independent branches.
Balance of powers

"""""The first three articles of the U.S. Constitution call for the powers of the federal government to be divided among three separate branches: the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary branch. Under the separation of powers, each branch is independent, has a separate function, and may not usurp the functions of another branch.

However, the branches are interrelated. They cooperate with one another and also prevent one another from attempting to assume too much power.

This relationship is described as one of checks and balances, where the functions of one branch serve to contain and modify he power of another. Through this elaborate system of safeguards, the Framers of the Constitution sought to protect the nation against tyranny.''''

AND TRUMP IS A TYRANT.

Apply all of those statements to Obama.LMAO!

Ah! The deflection begins. So you can't defend Trump. You can't quote law to condemn Yates. Why am I not surprised?
Stick to real data, quote actual laws, and not op-eds from rightwing magazines.

 

[WaitingFor2020]

Why Yates Had to Go

It is a very simple proposition. Our Constitution vests all executive power — not some of it, all of it — in the president of the United States. Executive-branch officials do not have their own power. They are delegated by the president to execute his power. If they object to the president’s policies, their choice is clear: salute and enforce the president’s directives, or honorably resign. There is no third way.


No one knows this better than high-ranking officials of the Department of Justice. That is why President Trump was right to fire Acting Attorney General Sally Yates.


Over the weekend, President Trump issued an executive order temporarily restricting the admission into the United States of aliens from various Muslim-majority countries, as well as aliens from Syria and elsewhere who are claiming refugee status. Naturally, this has triggered protests by Democrats and the Left.


They erroneously claim that Trump’s executive order violates the Constitution, statutory law, American tradition, and human decency.


For inexplicable reasons, the new president left Yates in place to run the Justice Department in anticipation of the confirmation of Senator Jeff Sessions. A faithful Obama-appointed progressive, Yates obviously knew which way the political wind was blowing in her tribe.


Like most Democrats, Yates objects to the president’s executive order. Fair enough. But she is not a political operative, she was a Justice Department official — the highest such official. If her opposition to the president’s policy was as deeply held as she says, her choice was clear: enforce the president’s policy or quit.


Instead, she chose insubordination: Knowing she would be out the moment Senator Sessions is confirmed, she announced on Monday night that the Justice Department would not enforce the president’s order. She did not issue this statement on the grounds that the order is illegal. She declined to take a definitive position on that question. She rested her decision, rather, on her disagreement with the justice of the order. Now, she’ll be a left-wing hero, influential beyond her heretofore status as a nameless bureaucrat. But she had to go.

To make an analogy, there are many federal judges who oppose abortion. They apply Roe v. Wade even though they disagree with it intensely, because their duty is to obey superior courts. As every official in the Justice Department knows, if one disagrees with the law one is called upon to apply, or the policy one is bound to enforce, one is free to resign. Staying on while undermining government policy is not an act of courage. It is an act of sabotage.


It was foolish of President Trump to leave officials such as Acting Attorney General Yates in place. The president has issued a raft of executive orders in his first eight days. His obvious intent is to change governance significantly, which means he needs entirely new personnel. Yates never should have been in the position to undertake her grandstanding in the first place — but at least that particular error has now been corrected.

Read more at: Why Yates Had to Go

This opinion piece is just flat wrong.


Separation of Powers
The division of state and federal government into three independent branches.
Balance of powers

"""""The first three articles of the U.S. Constitution call for the powers of the federal government to be divided among three separate branches: the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary branch. Under the separation of powers, each branch is independent, has a separate function, and may not usurp the functions of another branch.

However, the branches are interrelated. They cooperate with one another and also prevent one another from attempting to assume too much power.

This relationship is described as one of checks and balances, where the functions of one branch serve to contain and modify he power of another. Through this elaborate system of safeguards, the Framers of the Constitution sought to protect the nation against tyranny.''''

AND TRUMP IS A TYRANT.

Apply all of those statements to Obama.LMAO!

the hypocrisy of the left. They never questioned obozo's EOs. Just bowed and worshiped him like the brainless sheep that they are.

Another deflector. Man, you guys are SO EASY. I guess we're going to hear a lot of But..but...but...Obama! Chickens.

But it's OK. Trump will be like Nixon on steroids and we'll be done with him a lot sooner, too.

 

[WaitingFor2020]

Why Yates Had to Go

It is a very simple proposition. Our Constitution vests all executive power — not some of it, all of it — in the president of the United States. Executive-branch officials do not have their own power. They are delegated by the president to execute his power. If they object to the president’s policies, their choice is clear: salute and enforce the president’s directives, or honorably resign. There is no third way.


No one knows this better than high-ranking officials of the Department of Justice. That is why President Trump was right to fire Acting Attorney General Sally Yates.


Over the weekend, President Trump issued an executive order temporarily restricting the admission into the United States of aliens from various Muslim-majority countries, as well as aliens from Syria and elsewhere who are claiming refugee status. Naturally, this has triggered protests by Democrats and the Left.


They erroneously claim that Trump’s executive order violates the Constitution, statutory law, American tradition, and human decency.


For inexplicable reasons, the new president left Yates in place to run the Justice Department in anticipation of the confirmation of Senator Jeff Sessions. A faithful Obama-appointed progressive, Yates obviously knew which way the political wind was blowing in her tribe.


Like most Democrats, Yates objects to the president’s executive order. Fair enough. But she is not a political operative, she was a Justice Department official — the highest such official. If her opposition to the president’s policy was as deeply held as she says, her choice was clear: enforce the president’s policy or quit.


Instead, she chose insubordination: Knowing she would be out the moment Senator Sessions is confirmed, she announced on Monday night that the Justice Department would not enforce the president’s order. She did not issue this statement on the grounds that the order is illegal. She declined to take a definitive position on that question. She rested her decision, rather, on her disagreement with the justice of the order. Now, she’ll be a left-wing hero, influential beyond her heretofore status as a nameless bureaucrat. But she had to go.

To make an analogy, there are many federal judges who oppose abortion. They apply Roe v. Wade even though they disagree with it intensely, because their duty is to obey superior courts. As every official in the Justice Department knows, if one disagrees with the law one is called upon to apply, or the policy one is bound to enforce, one is free to resign. Staying on while undermining government policy is not an act of courage. It is an act of sabotage.


It was foolish of President Trump to leave officials such as Acting Attorney General Yates in place. The president has issued a raft of executive orders in his first eight days. His obvious intent is to change governance significantly, which means he needs entirely new personnel. Yates never should have been in the position to undertake her grandstanding in the first place — but at least that particular error has now been corrected.

Read more at: Why Yates Had to Go

This opinion piece is just flat wrong.


Separation of Powers
The division of state and federal government into three independent branches.
Balance of powers

"""""The first three articles of the U.S. Constitution call for the powers of the federal government to be divided among three separate branches: the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary branch. Under the separation of powers, each branch is independent, has a separate function, and may not usurp the functions of another branch.

However, the branches are interrelated. They cooperate with one another and also prevent one another from attempting to assume too much power.

This relationship is described as one of checks and balances, where the functions of one branch serve to contain and modify he power of another. Through this elaborate system of safeguards, the Framers of the Constitution sought to protect the nation against tyranny.''''

AND TRUMP IS A TYRANT.

Apply all of those statements to Obama.LMAO!

the hypocrisy of the left. They never questioned obozo's EOs. Just bowed and worshiped him like the brainless sheep that they are.

Eat it, Guppy: "The courts, given the sole power to interpret the Constitution and the laws, can uphold or overturn acts of the legislature or rule on actions by the president."""

 

[kaz]

Yates made a brave effort. God bless her.

We need to clean house of the leftist extremists left all over Washington. OMG, Trump is trying to defend us from terrorist attacks! He has to be stopped!

How's that working out for you in elections?

 

[kaz]

Why Yates Had to Go

It is a very simple proposition. Our Constitution vests all executive power — not some of it, all of it — in the president of the United States. Executive-branch officials do not have their own power. They are delegated by the president to execute his power. If they object to the president’s policies, their choice is clear: salute and enforce the president’s directives, or honorably resign. There is no third way.


No one knows this better than high-ranking officials of the Department of Justice. That is why President Trump was right to fire Acting Attorney General Sally Yates.


Over the weekend, President Trump issued an executive order temporarily restricting the admission into the United States of aliens from various Muslim-majority countries, as well as aliens from Syria and elsewhere who are claiming refugee status. Naturally, this has triggered protests by Democrats and the Left.


They erroneously claim that Trump’s executive order violates the Constitution, statutory law, American tradition, and human decency.


For inexplicable reasons, the new president left Yates in place to run the Justice Department in anticipation of the confirmation of Senator Jeff Sessions. A faithful Obama-appointed progressive, Yates obviously knew which way the political wind was blowing in her tribe.


Like most Democrats, Yates objects to the president’s executive order. Fair enough. But she is not a political operative, she was a Justice Department official — the highest such official. If her opposition to the president’s policy was as deeply held as she says, her choice was clear: enforce the president’s policy or quit.


Instead, she chose insubordination: Knowing she would be out the moment Senator Sessions is confirmed, she announced on Monday night that the Justice Department would not enforce the president’s order. She did not issue this statement on the grounds that the order is illegal. She declined to take a definitive position on that question. She rested her decision, rather, on her disagreement with the justice of the order. Now, she’ll be a left-wing hero, influential beyond her heretofore status as a nameless bureaucrat. But she had to go.

To make an analogy, there are many federal judges who oppose abortion. They apply Roe v. Wade even though they disagree with it intensely, because their duty is to obey superior courts. As every official in the Justice Department knows, if one disagrees with the law one is called upon to apply, or the policy one is bound to enforce, one is free to resign. Staying on while undermining government policy is not an act of courage. It is an act of sabotage.


It was foolish of President Trump to leave officials such as Acting Attorney General Yates in place. The president has issued a raft of executive orders in his first eight days. His obvious intent is to change governance significantly, which means he needs entirely new personnel. Yates never should have been in the position to undertake her grandstanding in the first place — but at least that particular error has now been corrected.

Read more at: Why Yates Had to Go

This opinion piece is just flat wrong.


Separation of Powers
The division of state and federal government into three independent branches.
Balance of powers

"""""The first three articles of the U.S. Constitution call for the powers of the federal government to be divided among three separate branches: the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary branch. Under the separation of powers, each branch is independent, has a separate function, and may not usurp the functions of another branch.

However, the branches are interrelated. They cooperate with one another and also prevent one another from attempting to assume too much power.

This relationship is described as one of checks and balances, where the functions of one branch serve to contain and modify he power of another. Through this elaborate system of safeguards, the Framers of the Constitution sought to protect the nation against tyranny.''''

AND TRUMP IS A TYRANT.

Apply all of those statements to Obama.LMAO!

the hypocrisy of the left. They never questioned obozo's EOs. Just bowed and worshiped him like the brainless sheep that they are.

Another deflector. Man, you guys are SO EASY. I guess we're going to hear a lot of But..but...but...Obama! Chickens.

But it's OK. Trump will be like Nixon on steroids and we'll be done with him a lot sooner, too.

That always cracks me up from the moon bats who just spent eight years saying, BOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

[hazlnut]

Why Yates Had to Go

It is a very simple proposition. Our Constitution vests all executive power — not some of it, all of it — in the president of the United States. Executive-branch officials do not have their own power. They are delegated by the president to execute his power. If they object to the president’s policies, their choice is clear: salute and enforce the president’s directives, or honorably resign. There is no third way.


No one knows this better than high-ranking officials of the Department of Justice. That is why President Trump was right to fire Acting Attorney General Sally Yates.


Over the weekend, President Trump issued an executive order temporarily restricting the admission into the United States of aliens from various Muslim-majority countries, as well as aliens from Syria and elsewhere who are claiming refugee status. Naturally, this has triggered protests by Democrats and the Left.


They erroneously claim that Trump’s executive order violates the Constitution, statutory law, American tradition, and human decency.


For inexplicable reasons, the new president left Yates in place to run the Justice Department in anticipation of the confirmation of Senator Jeff Sessions. A faithful Obama-appointed progressive, Yates obviously knew which way the political wind was blowing in her tribe.


Like most Democrats, Yates objects to the president’s executive order. Fair enough. But she is not a political operative, she was a Justice Department official — the highest such official. If her opposition to the president’s policy was as deeply held as she says, her choice was clear: enforce the president’s policy or quit.


Instead, she chose insubordination: Knowing she would be out the moment Senator Sessions is confirmed, she announced on Monday night that the Justice Department would not enforce the president’s order. She did not issue this statement on the grounds that the order is illegal. She declined to take a definitive position on that question. She rested her decision, rather, on her disagreement with the justice of the order. Now, she’ll be a left-wing hero, influential beyond her heretofore status as a nameless bureaucrat. But she had to go.

To make an analogy, there are many federal judges who oppose abortion. They apply Roe v. Wade even though they disagree with it intensely, because their duty is to obey superior courts. As every official in the Justice Department knows, if one disagrees with the law one is called upon to apply, or the policy one is bound to enforce, one is free to resign. Staying on while undermining government policy is not an act of courage. It is an act of sabotage.


It was foolish of President Trump to leave officials such as Acting Attorney General Yates in place. The president has issued a raft of executive orders in his first eight days. His obvious intent is to change governance significantly, which means he needs entirely new personnel. Yates never should have been in the position to undertake her grandstanding in the first place — but at least that particular error has now been corrected.

Read more at: Why Yates Had to Go

She was deliberately insubordinate, talking truth to power.

She was in her right.

He was in his right.

What she did left a big stink on the situation. Brilliant move on her part. And dopey played right into it.

Had the child at the WH Stephens done a proper roll out of the policy, the shit wouldn't stink so bad.

She was leaving in a few days anyway, maybe she got invited to the Superbowl and saw this as a way to go out leaving yet another mark on the Trump train wreck presidency.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Yates made a brave effort. God bless her.

Yates is a cvnt, who made a grandstanding move and put party before duty.

 

[my2¢]

A ship needs only one captain. Yates had to go but the honorable thing for her to do would have been to resign.

 

[Jackson]

God forbid anyone in the Trump administration following their conscience, instead of their puppetmaster.

Why Yates Had to Go

It is a very simple proposition. Our Constitution vests all executive power — not some of it, all of it — in the president of the United States. Executive-branch officials do not have their own power. They are delegated by the president to execute his power. If they object to the president’s policies, their choice is clear: salute and enforce the president’s directives, or honorably resign. There is no third way.


No one knows this better than high-ranking officials of the Department of Justice. That is why President Trump was right to fire Acting Attorney General Sally Yates.


Over the weekend, President Trump issued an executive order temporarily restricting the admission into the United States of aliens from various Muslim-majority countries, as well as aliens from Syria and elsewhere who are claiming refugee status. Naturally, this has triggered protests by Democrats and the Left.


They erroneously claim that Trump’s executive order violates the Constitution, statutory law, American tradition, and human decency.


For inexplicable reasons, the new president left Yates in place to run the Justice Department in anticipation of the confirmation of Senator Jeff Sessions. A faithful Obama-appointed progressive, Yates obviously knew which way the political wind was blowing in her tribe.


Like most Democrats, Yates objects to the president’s executive order. Fair enough. But she is not a political operative, she was a Justice Department official — the highest such official. If her opposition to the president’s policy was as deeply held as she says, her choice was clear: enforce the president’s policy or quit.


Instead, she chose insubordination: Knowing she would be out the moment Senator Sessions is confirmed, she announced on Monday night that the Justice Department would not enforce the president’s order. She did not issue this statement on the grounds that the order is illegal. She declined to take a definitive position on that question. She rested her decision, rather, on her disagreement with the justice of the order. Now, she’ll be a left-wing hero, influential beyond her heretofore status as a nameless bureaucrat. But she had to go.

To make an analogy, there are many federal judges who oppose abortion. They apply Roe v. Wade even though they disagree with it intensely, because their duty is to obey superior courts. As every official in the Justice Department knows, if one disagrees with the law one is called upon to apply, or the policy one is bound to enforce, one is free to resign. Staying on while undermining government policy is not an act of courage. It is an act of sabotage.


It was foolish of President Trump to leave officials such as Acting Attorney General Yates in place. The president has issued a raft of executive orders in his first eight days. His obvious intent is to change governance significantly, which means he needs entirely new personnel. Yates never should have been in the position to undertake her grandstanding in the first place — but at least that particular error has now been corrected.

Read more at: Why Yates Had to Go

This opinion piece is just flat wrong.


Separation of Powers
The division of state and federal government into three independent branches.
Balance of powers

"""""The first three articles of the U.S. Constitution call for the powers of the federal government to be divided among three separate branches: the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary branch. Under the separation of powers, each branch is independent, has a separate function, and may not usurp the functions of another branch.

However, the branches are interrelated. They cooperate with one another and also prevent one another from attempting to assume too much power.

This relationship is described as one of checks and balances, where the functions of one branch serve to contain and modify he power of another. Through this elaborate system of safeguards, the Framers of the Constitution sought to protect the nation against tyranny.''''

AND TRUMP IS A TYRANT.

Apply all of those statements to Obama.LMAO!

Ah! The deflection begins. So you can't defend Trump. You can't quote law to condemn Yates. Why am I not surprised?
Stick to real data, quote actual laws, and not op-eds from rightwing magazines.

Then you would be surprised to read the law? Get informed!

Section 1182(f) of Title 8, U.S. Code: "Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate”

 

[Uncensored2008]

[
Well, I would go along with that. A brave but ill informed effort.

Pshaw, it's one day. Yates is gone no matter what. She is no different than the Airport Protestors, another whiny leftist who want's people from terrorist states admitted with impunity.

 

[kaz]

Why Yates Had to Go

It is a very simple proposition. Our Constitution vests all executive power — not some of it, all of it — in the president of the United States. Executive-branch officials do not have their own power. They are delegated by the president to execute his power. If they object to the president’s policies, their choice is clear: salute and enforce the president’s directives, or honorably resign. There is no third way.


No one knows this better than high-ranking officials of the Department of Justice. That is why President Trump was right to fire Acting Attorney General Sally Yates.


Over the weekend, President Trump issued an executive order temporarily restricting the admission into the United States of aliens from various Muslim-majority countries, as well as aliens from Syria and elsewhere who are claiming refugee status. Naturally, this has triggered protests by Democrats and the Left.


They erroneously claim that Trump’s executive order violates the Constitution, statutory law, American tradition, and human decency.


For inexplicable reasons, the new president left Yates in place to run the Justice Department in anticipation of the confirmation of Senator Jeff Sessions. A faithful Obama-appointed progressive, Yates obviously knew which way the political wind was blowing in her tribe.


Like most Democrats, Yates objects to the president’s executive order. Fair enough. But she is not a political operative, she was a Justice Department official — the highest such official. If her opposition to the president’s policy was as deeply held as she says, her choice was clear: enforce the president’s policy or quit.


Instead, she chose insubordination: Knowing she would be out the moment Senator Sessions is confirmed, she announced on Monday night that the Justice Department would not enforce the president’s order. She did not issue this statement on the grounds that the order is illegal. She declined to take a definitive position on that question. She rested her decision, rather, on her disagreement with the justice of the order. Now, she’ll be a left-wing hero, influential beyond her heretofore status as a nameless bureaucrat. But she had to go.

To make an analogy, there are many federal judges who oppose abortion. They apply Roe v. Wade even though they disagree with it intensely, because their duty is to obey superior courts. As every official in the Justice Department knows, if one disagrees with the law one is called upon to apply, or the policy one is bound to enforce, one is free to resign. Staying on while undermining government policy is not an act of courage. It is an act of sabotage.


It was foolish of President Trump to leave officials such as Acting Attorney General Yates in place. The president has issued a raft of executive orders in his first eight days. His obvious intent is to change governance significantly, which means he needs entirely new personnel. Yates never should have been in the position to undertake her grandstanding in the first place — but at least that particular error has now been corrected.

Read more at: Why Yates Had to Go

She was deliberately insubordinate, talking truth to power.

She was in her right.

He was in his right.

What she did left a big stink on the situation. Brilliant move on her part. And dopey played right into it.

Had the child at the WH Stephens done a proper roll out of the policy, the shit wouldn't stink so bad.

She was leaving in a few days anyway, maybe she got invited to the Superbowl and saw this as a way to go out leaving yet another mark on the Trump train wreck presidency.

The one thing you said that was accurate was it was in her right and his right to do what they did. She never should have been in that position as an Obamoron. The rest of the post is the stupid shit that you do that makes you a moon bat. But that one part was accurate

 

[Jackson]

Why Yates Had to Go

It is a very simple proposition. Our Constitution vests all executive power — not some of it, all of it — in the president of the United States. Executive-branch officials do not have their own power. They are delegated by the president to execute his power. If they object to the president’s policies, their choice is clear: salute and enforce the president’s directives, or honorably resign. There is no third way.


No one knows this better than high-ranking officials of the Department of Justice. That is why President Trump was right to fire Acting Attorney General Sally Yates.


Over the weekend, President Trump issued an executive order temporarily restricting the admission into the United States of aliens from various Muslim-majority countries, as well as aliens from Syria and elsewhere who are claiming refugee status. Naturally, this has triggered protests by Democrats and the Left.


They erroneously claim that Trump’s executive order violates the Constitution, statutory law, American tradition, and human decency.


For inexplicable reasons, the new president left Yates in place to run the Justice Department in anticipation of the confirmation of Senator Jeff Sessions. A faithful Obama-appointed progressive, Yates obviously knew which way the political wind was blowing in her tribe.


Like most Democrats, Yates objects to the president’s executive order. Fair enough. But she is not a political operative, she was a Justice Department official — the highest such official. If her opposition to the president’s policy was as deeply held as she says, her choice was clear: enforce the president’s policy or quit.


Instead, she chose insubordination: Knowing she would be out the moment Senator Sessions is confirmed, she announced on Monday night that the Justice Department would not enforce the president’s order. She did not issue this statement on the grounds that the order is illegal. She declined to take a definitive position on that question. She rested her decision, rather, on her disagreement with the justice of the order. Now, she’ll be a left-wing hero, influential beyond her heretofore status as a nameless bureaucrat. But she had to go.

To make an analogy, there are many federal judges who oppose abortion. They apply Roe v. Wade even though they disagree with it intensely, because their duty is to obey superior courts. As every official in the Justice Department knows, if one disagrees with the law one is called upon to apply, or the policy one is bound to enforce, one is free to resign. Staying on while undermining government policy is not an act of courage. It is an act of sabotage.


It was foolish of President Trump to leave officials such as Acting Attorney General Yates in place. The president has issued a raft of executive orders in his first eight days. His obvious intent is to change governance significantly, which means he needs entirely new personnel. Yates never should have been in the position to undertake her grandstanding in the first place — but at least that particular error has now been corrected.

Read more at: Why Yates Had to Go

This opinion piece is just flat wrong.


Separation of Powers
The division of state and federal government into three independent branches.
Balance of powers

"""""The first three articles of the U.S. Constitution call for the powers of the federal government to be divided among three separate branches: the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary branch. Under the separation of powers, each branch is independent, has a separate function, and may not usurp the functions of another branch.

However, the branches are interrelated. They cooperate with one another and also prevent one another from attempting to assume too much power.

This relationship is described as one of checks and balances, where the functions of one branch serve to contain and modify he power of another. Through this elaborate system of safeguards, the Framers of the Constitution sought to protect the nation against tyranny.''''

AND TRUMP IS A TYRANT.

Apply all of those statements to Obama.LMAO!

the hypocrisy of the left. They never questioned obozo's EOs. Just bowed and worshiped him like the brainless sheep that they are.

Eat it, Guppy: "The courts, given the sole power to interpret the Constitution and the laws, can uphold or overturn acts of the legislature or rule on actions by the president."""

Section 1182(f) of Title 8, U.S. Code: "Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate”

 

[ZZ PUPPS]

The bitch acted stupidly.

 

[WaitingFor2020]

Why Yates Had to Go

It is a very simple proposition. Our Constitution vests all executive power — not some of it, all of it — in the president of the United States. Executive-branch officials do not have their own power. They are delegated by the president to execute his power. If they object to the president’s policies, their choice is clear: salute and enforce the president’s directives, or honorably resign. There is no third way.


No one knows this better than high-ranking officials of the Department of Justice. That is why President Trump was right to fire Acting Attorney General Sally Yates.


Over the weekend, President Trump issued an executive order temporarily restricting the admission into the United States of aliens from various Muslim-majority countries, as well as aliens from Syria and elsewhere who are claiming refugee status. Naturally, this has triggered protests by Democrats and the Left.


They erroneously claim that Trump’s executive order violates the Constitution, statutory law, American tradition, and human decency.


For inexplicable reasons, the new president left Yates in place to run the Justice Department in anticipation of the confirmation of Senator Jeff Sessions. A faithful Obama-appointed progressive, Yates obviously knew which way the political wind was blowing in her tribe.


Like most Democrats, Yates objects to the president’s executive order. Fair enough. But she is not a political operative, she was a Justice Department official — the highest such official. If her opposition to the president’s policy was as deeply held as she says, her choice was clear: enforce the president’s policy or quit.


Instead, she chose insubordination: Knowing she would be out the moment Senator Sessions is confirmed, she announced on Monday night that the Justice Department would not enforce the president’s order. She did not issue this statement on the grounds that the order is illegal. She declined to take a definitive position on that question. She rested her decision, rather, on her disagreement with the justice of the order. Now, she’ll be a left-wing hero, influential beyond her heretofore status as a nameless bureaucrat. But she had to go.

To make an analogy, there are many federal judges who oppose abortion. They apply Roe v. Wade even though they disagree with it intensely, because their duty is to obey superior courts. As every official in the Justice Department knows, if one disagrees with the law one is called upon to apply, or the policy one is bound to enforce, one is free to resign. Staying on while undermining government policy is not an act of courage. It is an act of sabotage.


It was foolish of President Trump to leave officials such as Acting Attorney General Yates in place. The president has issued a raft of executive orders in his first eight days. His obvious intent is to change governance significantly, which means he needs entirely new personnel. Yates never should have been in the position to undertake her grandstanding in the first place — but at least that particular error has now been corrected.

Read more at: Why Yates Had to Go

This opinion piece is just flat wrong.


Separation of Powers
The division of state and federal government into three independent branches.
Balance of powers

"""""The first three articles of the U.S. Constitution call for the powers of the federal government to be divided among three separate branches: the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary branch. Under the separation of powers, each branch is independent, has a separate function, and may not usurp the functions of another branch.

However, the branches are interrelated. They cooperate with one another and also prevent one another from attempting to assume too much power.

This relationship is described as one of checks and balances, where the functions of one branch serve to contain and modify he power of another. Through this elaborate system of safeguards, the Framers of the Constitution sought to protect the nation against tyranny.''''

AND TRUMP IS A TYRANT.

Apply all of those statements to Obama.LMAO!

the hypocrisy of the left. They never questioned obozo's EOs. Just bowed and worshiped him like the brainless sheep that they are.

Another deflector. Man, you guys are SO EASY. I guess we're going to hear a lot of But..but...but...Obama! Chickens.

But it's OK. Trump will be like Nixon on steroids and we'll be done with him a lot sooner, too.

That always cracks me up from the moon bats who just spent eight years saying, BOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH

Another coward who can't defend Trump. Lots of chickens clucking really loud here.

 

[Uncensored2008]

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Exactly IF the order were Constitutional/legal. BUT her job was also to contest actions which were unconstitutional/illegal on their face and to NOT ACT LIKE A RUBBER STAMP for a regime with an unconstitutional agenda. That is something you Trump parrots refuse to comprehend. Trump will get Nixon'ed doing that!

Utter ignorance and bullshit, Comrade. She was not a SCOTUS justice. The AG serves at the pleasure of the President. Yates is another petulant leftist throwing a tantrum, nothing more.

 

[Vandalshandle]

I doubt if anyone minds that Yates was fired. Hell, democrats feel that Kim Davis should have lost her job. The fact is that Yates refused to to enforce what she saw as an unlawful order. Instead of doing that, she took a stand, doing what she saw as the right thing. I am sure that she was not surprised that she was fired. She expected it. But, she stood up for what she believed was right. She is an inspiration to those that resist, and I am sure that there will be many others, until Trump has an entire administration of toadies and yes men. I actually feel sorry for a lot of these people who Trump appoints. I seriously doubt if even Trump respects them.

 

[Jackson]

Why Yates Had to Go

It is a very simple proposition. Our Constitution vests all executive power — not some of it, all of it — in the president of the United States. Executive-branch officials do not have their own power. They are delegated by the president to execute his power. If they object to the president’s policies, their choice is clear: salute and enforce the president’s directives, or honorably resign. There is no third way.


No one knows this better than high-ranking officials of the Department of Justice. That is why President Trump was right to fire Acting Attorney General Sally Yates.


Over the weekend, President Trump issued an executive order temporarily restricting the admission into the United States of aliens from various Muslim-majority countries, as well as aliens from Syria and elsewhere who are claiming refugee status. Naturally, this has triggered protests by Democrats and the Left.


They erroneously claim that Trump’s executive order violates the Constitution, statutory law, American tradition, and human decency.


For inexplicable reasons, the new president left Yates in place to run the Justice Department in anticipation of the confirmation of Senator Jeff Sessions. A faithful Obama-appointed progressive, Yates obviously knew which way the political wind was blowing in her tribe.


Like most Democrats, Yates objects to the president’s executive order. Fair enough. But she is not a political operative, she was a Justice Department official — the highest such official. If her opposition to the president’s policy was as deeply held as she says, her choice was clear: enforce the president’s policy or quit.


Instead, she chose insubordination: Knowing she would be out the moment Senator Sessions is confirmed, she announced on Monday night that the Justice Department would not enforce the president’s order. She did not issue this statement on the grounds that the order is illegal. She declined to take a definitive position on that question. She rested her decision, rather, on her disagreement with the justice of the order. Now, she’ll be a left-wing hero, influential beyond her heretofore status as a nameless bureaucrat. But she had to go.

To make an analogy, there are many federal judges who oppose abortion. They apply Roe v. Wade even though they disagree with it intensely, because their duty is to obey superior courts. As every official in the Justice Department knows, if one disagrees with the law one is called upon to apply, or the policy one is bound to enforce, one is free to resign. Staying on while undermining government policy is not an act of courage. It is an act of sabotage.


It was foolish of President Trump to leave officials such as Acting Attorney General Yates in place. The president has issued a raft of executive orders in his first eight days. His obvious intent is to change governance significantly, which means he needs entirely new personnel. Yates never should have been in the position to undertake her grandstanding in the first place — but at least that particular error has now been corrected.

Read more at: Why Yates Had to Go

She was deliberately insubordinate, talking truth to power.

She was in her right.

He was in his right.

What she did left a big stink on the situation. Brilliant move on her part. And dopey played right into it.

Had the child at the WH Stephens done a proper roll out of the policy, the shit wouldn't stink so bad.

She was leaving in a few days anyway, maybe she got invited to the Superbowl and saw this as a way to go out leaving yet another mark on the Trump train wreck presidency.

IT WAS NOT HER RIGHT!!! LMAO!! SHE HAD TO FOLLOW THE LAW.

 

[kaz]

This opinion piece is just flat wrong.


Separation of Powers
The division of state and federal government into three independent branches.
Balance of powers

"""""The first three articles of the U.S. Constitution call for the powers of the federal government to be divided among three separate branches: the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary branch. Under the separation of powers, each branch is independent, has a separate function, and may not usurp the functions of another branch.

However, the branches are interrelated. They cooperate with one another and also prevent one another from attempting to assume too much power.

This relationship is described as one of checks and balances, where the functions of one branch serve to contain and modify he power of another. Through this elaborate system of safeguards, the Framers of the Constitution sought to protect the nation against tyranny.''''

AND TRUMP IS A TYRANT.

Apply all of those statements to Obama.LMAO!

the hypocrisy of the left. They never questioned obozo's EOs. Just bowed and worshiped him like the brainless sheep that they are.

Another deflector. Man, you guys are SO EASY. I guess we're going to hear a lot of But..but...but...Obama! Chickens.

But it's OK. Trump will be like Nixon on steroids and we'll be done with him a lot sooner, too.

That always cracks me up from the moon bats who just spent eight years saying, BOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH

Another coward who can't defend Trump. Lots of chickens clucking really loud here.

Just pointing out your flagrant double standard. After eight years of BOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH you decry criticizing Obama who hasn't been gone two weeks

 

[whitehall]

Democrats put Yates in a tough spot regardless of the fact that her days were numbered anyway. As A.G. (temporary) she didn't have the authority (or the education?) to question the authority of the president. It should be noted that his order was Constitutional regardless of the opinion of old lib Nancy Pelosi. I doubt if George Bush would have fired a Clinton holdover no matter what insubordination was involved but Trump ain't Bush and the sooner democrats (and republicans) grasp that fact the better off they will be.

 

[Jackson]

This opinion piece is just flat wrong.


Separation of Powers
The division of state and federal government into three independent branches.
Balance of powers

"""""The first three articles of the U.S. Constitution call for the powers of the federal government to be divided among three separate branches: the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary branch. Under the separation of powers, each branch is independent, has a separate function, and may not usurp the functions of another branch.

However, the branches are interrelated. They cooperate with one another and also prevent one another from attempting to assume too much power.

This relationship is described as one of checks and balances, where the functions of one branch serve to contain and modify he power of another. Through this elaborate system of safeguards, the Framers of the Constitution sought to protect the nation against tyranny.''''

AND TRUMP IS A TYRANT.

Apply all of those statements to Obama.LMAO!

the hypocrisy of the left. They never questioned obozo's EOs. Just bowed and worshiped him like the brainless sheep that they are.

Another deflector. Man, you guys are SO EASY. I guess we're going to hear a lot of But..but...but...Obama! Chickens.

But it's OK. Trump will be like Nixon on steroids and we'll be done with him a lot sooner, too.

That always cracks me up from the moon bats who just spent eight years saying, BOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH

Another coward who can't defend Trump. Lots of chickens clucking really loud here.

Can you defend the Democrats denying an up or down vote on the candidates?