In the midst of the controversy over the Trump administration’s executive order barring immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries, Attorney General Sally Yates took a largely symbolic stand against the ban, ordering the Justice Department not to defend it in court. What followed was a violent, brusque dismissal that holds echoes of the Saturday Night Massacre.
Sally Yates fired as attorney general after defying Trump’s Muslim ban
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