After Sally Yates, the attorney general during Obama’s presidency, expressed her refusal to defend Trump’s Muslim ban last night, Trump fired her.
Trump’s daily briefing
January 31, 2017
Sally Yates, during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee to be Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice. March 24, 2015. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL.