CNN:
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.There has been much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments over this executive order banning immigrants from seven countries, with special attention paid to Syria due to the refugee crisis there. Unfortunately, America helped create that crisis (thanks Obama!). Allowing refugees into our country, who might not have been refugees if not for American actions, is the equivalent of allowing the fox into the hen house. The fact we are continuing operations over in Syria only creates peril for our country if we allow refugees inside.
"(Yates) has betrayed the Department of Justice," the White House statement 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."
Under the circumstances (continued military action in Syria), this is the only logical course of action.
Also, this executive order is NOT a ban on all Muslims, as many in the mainstream media are harping. So calling this some kind of anti-religion action is just plain wrong. If anything, the truth is that both Republicans and Democrats have been unashamedly carrying on a war on Islam ever since 9/11. For the MSM to point fingers at Trump, but not Bush or Obama, is disingenuous. Don't complain about "denying the rights of Muslims" as you sat idly by while the last two presidents were denying the LIVES of Muslims.
Not to mention Trump's executive order was perfectly legal, under the very law authorized by the Constitution:
The Hill:
President Trump’s executive order (EO) titled “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,” has produced a storm of protest. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a statement on Friday that “there are tears running down the cheeks of the Statue of Liberty tonight.”
What is in this EO that is so upsetting?
The EO’s stated policy is “to protect the United States and its citizens from foreign nationals who intend to commit terrorist attacks in the United States.”
It directs the Secretary of State and the Director of National Intelligence to determine what information is needed from any country to decide whether one of its nationals who is seeking admission to the United States is who he claims to be and is not a security or public-safety threat.
It gives them 30 days to report the results of that determination with a list of countries that do not provide adequate information.
The EO imposes a 90-day suspension of immigrant and nonimmigrant admission of aliens from countries designated in section 217(a)(12) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which excludes aliens who have been present in a specified country from participating in the Visa Waiver program.
The president’s authority to declare such suspensions can been found in section 212(f) of the INA, the pertinent part of which reads as follows:
"(f) 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."Read the rest of the article, but this all seems very proper and legal.
The 90-day suspension can be waived on a case-by-case basis.
In other Trump news....
Business Insider:
President Donald Trump announced Monday morning that he had settled on a nominee for the vacant seat on the Supreme Court — and one formerly dark-horse candidate has emerged as the judge with quite possibly the inside track to score the nod.If the Democrats want to stop Hardiman, they will have to explain why they voted for him unanimously in 2007. This will only leave his decisions made since then as excuses to vote against him. This should be high political drama, along the lines of Advise and Consent. Get your popcorn ready.
Thomas Hardiman, a 51-year-old judge who sits on the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals, has caught the attention of observers to fill the void left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia for several reasons.
With Democrats threatening to block Trump's Supreme Court pick, it's noteworthy that Hardiman was voted onto the appeals court in 2007 by a 95-0 tally. Both Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, voted to approve him.
Finally, in international news...
Fox News:
Iran conducted its first ballistic missile test under Donald Trump's presidency, in yet another apparent violation of a United Nations resolution, U.S. officials told Fox News on Monday.
...U.N. resolution 2231 -- put in place days after the Iran nuclear deal was signed -- calls on the Islamic Republic not to conduct such tests. However, this is at least Iran's second such test since July. The resolution bars Iran from conducting ballistic missile tests for eight years and went into effect July 20, 2015.
Wasn't our treaty with Iran supposed to help prevent this kind of thing? Scratch out another part of Obama's legacy.
On the bright side:
The launch occurred Sunday at a well-known test site outside Semnan, about 140 miles east of Tehran, Fox News was first to learn.Iranian technology: Making the Chinese look really good!
The Khorramshahr medium-range ballistic missile flew 600 miles before exploding, in a failed test of a reentry vehicle, officials said. Iran defense minister Brigadier Gen. Hossein Dehqan said in September that Iran would start production of the missile.
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