Sally Yates

You are fired!!!. The acting attorney general, Sally Yates has now been removed from her position on Monday after she defies the White House and refused to defend new travel ban that was placed on seven Muslim-majority nations.

The temporary ban on citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen has caused protests at the different US airport, causing chaos at different airports as border officials try putting the order into practise, a problem that spreads to the US market on Monday, making the stock dropped to its lowest in 2017, and company affected by the change spoke out against it.

                 

Yates stood her ground on Monday when she said that the Justice department would not defend the order against court challenges, because she did not believe it would be"consistent with this institution's solemn obligation to always seek justice and stand for what is right:

After hours of her comment, Sally Yates was fired in what the House House believes is a political move, and said Yates "has betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States"

Yates was an appointee of former Democratic President Barack Obama, and was waiting days before her replacement, as she awaits Donald Trump pick, Jeff Session, who is awaiting the senate confirmation.

Yates was immediately replaced with Dana Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and was sworn in at 9pm ET. She would be the acting Attorney-General before Jeff Session is confirmed.

Boente said that he would enforce the Immigration the Trump's immigration order.

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