1) Trump is not viewed as having presidential authority even though he's president
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2) Libs really don't know what words mean.
Their still having mental breakdowns over his victory over them. It's personal and they want vengence. If they can't be in charge then nobody can!
An extremely politically incorrect person just won the Presidency over the cultured educated enlightened beings of pure goodness and hope. This condition is unacceptable!
1) Trump is not viewed as having presidential authority even though he's president
-or-
2) Libs really don't know what words mean.
Their still having mental breakdowns over his victory over them. It's personal and they want vengence. If they can't be in charge then nobody can!
An extremely politically incorrect person just won the Presidency over the cultured educated enlightened beings of pure goodness and hope. This condition is unacceptable!
If he is successful in pushing through his agenda he will absolutely decimate the democratic party. This cannot be allowed and must be stopped at all costs, even if they require the loss of sanity.
“If the views the president wants to execute is unlawful, should the attorney general or deputy attorney general say no?” Sessions asked.
“Senator, I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has the obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the president,” she responded.
Are you saying that Attorney Generals are allowed to ignore law?
She was fired because she ignored Trump's order to follow the law. Hate to break it to you, but nobody is given a right to ignore the law (unless, apparently, you are a Clinton. The bar is set higher, you have to show intent on breaking the law too).
That is not what happened.
She instructed DA's not to argue the EO in court because it appeared to be unlawful.
She didn't tell them to break the law. She told them to not defend it because it seemed to be unlawful and rested on incorrect information.
A) How is that any different?
B) By your statement, you would be ok with DAs not following Civil Rights laws, because somebody may disagree with it.
C) I never said that she outright told them to break the law, I said that she directed the DOJ to not follow the law.
She instructed DA's not to argue the EO in court because it appeared to be unlawful.
She ignored the president's EO. It doesn't matter what she thought of it's legal standing (but for the record she's wrong on that too).
He doesn't need a real reason to fire her, he can because he simply doesn't like her, but firing her for insubordination is plenty justified.
It does matter what she thought of it's legal standing. She took an oath to uphold the constitution. That was the whole point of then Senator Sessions questioning from 2015 about her refusing to follow a directive from the President that might be unlawful.
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"You have to watch out because people will be asking you to do things and you need to say no. You think the attorney general has the responsibility to say no to the President if he asks for something that's improper?" Sessions asks Yates.
"A lot of people have defended the Lynch nomination, for example by saying, 'Well, he appoints somebody who's going to execute his views, what's wrong with that?' " the GOP senator from Alabama asks, referring to Obama's 2014 nomination of Loretta Lynch as attorney general.
"But if the views the President wants to execute are unlawful, should the attorney general or the deputy attorney general say no?"
Yates replies: "Senator, I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the President."
He had every right to fire her, I never said different.
“If the views the president wants to execute is unlawful, should the attorney general or deputy attorney general say no?” Sessions asked.
“Senator, I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has the obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the president,” she responded.
Are you saying that Attorney Generals are allowed to ignore law?
She was fired because she ignored Trump's order to follow the law. Hate to break it to you, but nobody is given a right to ignore the law (unless, apparently, you are a Clinton. The bar is set higher, you have to show intent on breaking the law too).
That is not what happened.
She instructed DA's not to argue the EO in court because it appeared to be unlawful.
She didn't tell them to break the law. She told them to not defend it because it seemed to be unlawful and rested on incorrect information.
A) How is that any different?
B) By your statement, you would be ok with DAs not following Civil Rights laws, because somebody may disagree with it.
C) I never said that she outright told them to break the law, I said that she directed the DOJ to not follow the law.
She did not direct them to not follow the law.
She directed them to not defend the law.
She broke no laws and did not tell anyone to break the law. That is a major difference.
If you are told to enforce an unlawful law you should not do so.
Civil servants have legal protection against obeying an order that would require them to break the law and public servants also have an oath to uphold the constitution.
Will you potentially be fired or go to jail temporarily? Yes, that can and has happened.
(Newser) – Amid the uproar following James Comey's surprise firing, many have called for a special prosecutor to take up the probe into Russian interference with the 2016 US presidential election—but those people are going to be disappointed. A new investigation would "only serve to impede the current work being done," said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on the Senate floor Wednesday, per Politico.
As FBI director, Comey was heading up the bureau's investigation into the matter (as well as whether President Trump's campaign team was involved), but the Senate Intelligence Committee is also running its own investigation, and McConnell said "too much is at stake" in that investigation to appoint special counsel, Time reports.