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Sally Yates was just fired by the Trump administration for refusing to defend the EO on immigration.
unblock
(52,317 posts)it's only monday!
Zambero
(8,966 posts)will only look that much better after this termination. Hats off to her integrity by doing the right thing and resisting Trump's directive.
IamFortunesFool
(348 posts)This administration has already well eclipsed Nixon's for the most corrupt.
They've only just begun. They will push the wedge issues until it creates social violence and mobilize the ascendant poloice state (especially since most law enforcent personel supports Trump) as a domestic military to suppress the created chaos and entrench the nationalistic and fascist control Bannon is engineering.
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)unblock
(52,317 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)I thought maybe America had 2 weeks..
Now.... I don't think so....
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)That is messed up. Trump dude is losing it.
IamFortunesFool
(348 posts)As I understand it, nobody will be able to sign them until the senate confirms a new AG. She was the only congressionally approved lawyer at the DOJ...which is why she was held over from the Obama admin. The newly minted temporary AG has not been.
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)I'm kind of speechless at this point, other than random obscenities.
herding cats
(19,567 posts)She was the only person with such authority, and Trump just fired her.
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)IamFortunesFool
(348 posts)He hasn't been congressionally approved.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)"until Jeff Sessions is confirmed by the Senate where he is wrongly being held up for purely political reasons"
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Of course Nixon fired two until he got one who would do his bidding....Robert Bork.
In the end Nixon quit so it did not save him. We shall see how much patience the Republicans have with this orange bozo, you might think they would be worried about that jerk putting their party behind the 8 ball for decades.
IamFortunesFool
(348 posts)To be "Borked" is a parlance in Washington and culture in general meaning to lose all credibility or fuck something up royally.
jeanmarc
(1,685 posts)Seems like he's begging for it. Will the GOP stand up to this idiot...or will they let us become the banana republic they've always wanted, complete with crackpot dictator.
Initech
(100,102 posts)dflprincess
(28,082 posts)those happy days when we thought it would never get worse than Nixon. I was so young, so naive <sigh>.