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More Than 100 Former Officials Sign Letter Opposing Trump's Executive Order

... Bannon’s appointment to the National Security Council (NSC) is. 467 Shares. Giuliani: Trump asked me how to do. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) said in an interview on. 465 Shares. Rubio: State asked not to talk. "That cannot be a permanent position," he said. 439 Shares. Drudge slams GOP Congress for. Drudge Report founder Matt Drudge slammed the GOP-led Congress in a rare. 416 Shares. Acting attorney general orders DOJ. Acting Attorney General Sally Yates ordered the Justice Department not to. 378 Shares. Schwarzenegger on Trump. Arnold Schwarzenegger is slamming President Trump’s executive order. 365 Shares. Trump's immigration ban executive. OPINION | The State Department explicitly states a visa does not guarantee. 335 Shares. Sanders: Bannon must be removed. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is calling for President Trump adviser Steve. 334 Shares. ...

Lax Border Agents Asked Detainees To Sign Away Us Residency

... at LAX. In such cases, agents were not only asking questions that kept the detainees from entering the country but taking action that could revoke their residency. Tolchin said the ACLU, along with her firm, is representing six people who were detained. All but one were eventually released into the United States. One man, Tolchin said, was coerced into signing a form withdrawing his admission to the U. S. and was sent back to his native Iran. He had been coming to the U. S. on an immigrant visa, she said, and he was to receive his green card here. She said another, a woman on a non-immigrant visa, signed a voluntary departure form but was eventually released, along with the others. Tolchin said attorneys also believe, based on information from detainees, relatives and other attorneys, that along with these other visa holders, some legal permanent residents were asked to sign forms abandoning their legal residency. This may not have been the case throughout the weekend. Helen Attai, a volunteer interpreter in Farsi from Granada Hills, said she interviewed ...

President Trump Fires Attorney General Sally Yates

... to stop defending refugee ban. According to a press release Monday from the White House Press Secretary, Dana Boente, the current U. S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, will no serve as Acting Attorney General until Senator Jeff Sessions is confirmed by the Senate. In the release, Yates is called "an Obama administration appointee who is weak on borders and very weak on illegal immigration.". It goes on to say "The acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, has betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States.". The Latest on Wisconsin reaction to President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration (all times local). 3:10 p.m. Gov. Scott Walker is backing President Donald Trump's travel ban affecting seven mostly Muslim countries. Walker had been silent on ...

Trump Has Fired The Acting Attorney General Who Ordered Justice Dept. Not To Defend President’s Travel Ban

... it had been ordered to do by a federal judge in New York. He said lawyers might be back in federal court in the next day or so to forcibly get access to it. The ACLU’s suit in New York is perhaps the most significant of a growing number of legal challenges to the order. The Council on American-Islamic Relations also filed a sweeping challenge Monday, alleging that the order is meant “to initiate the mass expulsion of immigrant and non-immigrant Muslims lawfully residing in the United States.” The lawsuit lists 27 plaintiffs, many of them lawful permanent residents and refugees who allege that Trump’s order will deny them citizenship or prevent them from traveling abroad and returning home. Lawyers with the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project filed a similar challenge in Washington state. Bob Ferguson, Washington state’s attorney general, said Monday that he, too, plans to file a federal lawsuit seeking an immediate halt to the order’s ...

Who Is Sally Yates

... is confirmed. Before that, she had spent years defending Obama administration policies, championing changes to the criminal justice system and curtailing the federal government's use of private prisons. Monday, Yates told Justice Department lawyers not to make legal arguments defending Trump's executive order on immigration and refugees, launching herself into the biggest controversy of the opening days of Trump's presidency. Read More. "My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts," Yates said in a letter to department lawyers. Hours later, she was gone, a dramatic end to her lengthy career in the department. Georgia roots. Born in Atlanta in 1960, Yates attended the University of Georgia both as an undergrad and a law student - becoming what the home of ...

Trump Has Fired Acting U.s. Attorney General Sally Yates

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Trump Despide A Secretaria De Justicia, Sally Yates, Tras Decir Que No Defenderá Veto A Refugiados

... Unidos. El presidente de Estados Unidos Donald Trump despidió este lunes a la secretaria de Justicia interina, Sally Yates, quien dijo que la cartera que dirige no defenderá el decreto antimigratorio del mandatario. "La fiscal general interina, Sally Yates, ha traicionado al Departamento de Justicia al negarse a hacer cumplir una orden legal diseñada para proteger a los ciudadanos de Estados Unidos", señaló la Casa Blanca en un comunicado. "El presidente Trump relevó a Yates de sus funciones y designó a Dana Boente, fiscal del distrito este de Virginia, para servir como fiscal general interino hasta que el senador Jeff Sessions sea confirmado por el Senado" en el cargo. Fiscal general interino de EEUU ordena no defender decreto de Trump. Foto AP. La fiscal general interina de Estados Unidos dijo este lunes que el Departamento de Justicia (Do J) no defenderá la decisión del presidente Donald Trump de prohibir el ingreso al país de refugiados y personas provenientes de siete países musulmanes. En un memorándum, la secretaria de Justicia interina Sally Yates -que sirvió como número dos del Do J bajo la presidencia de Barack Obama- que ocupa el ...

Trump Will Let Obama’s Top Federal Prosecutors Stick Around, For Now

... is confirmed as AG, Hornbuckle said. Attorney General Loretta Lynch will vacate the position Friday. U. S. attorneys are the top federal prosecutors in districts across the United States, and are charged with supervising the enforcement of federal law and defending the U. S. government in court. They wield enormous power and discretion. Out of 94 federal districts across the country, 53 U. S. attorneys currently in place were presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed, according to the latest  DOJ data. The remaining positions are filled by interim or acting U. S. attorneys. R. C. Hammond, a spokesman for the Trump transition team, rejected the premise that the announcement about the fate of the nation’s top federal prosecutors had come late. (Eight years ago, the Obama transition team beat the Trump team, but not by much. Obama’s team asked Bush-appointed U. S. attorneys to stick around “ for ...

Obama To Grant Hundreds More Drug Commutations

... to end its use of private prisons to house federal inmates. It is unclear whether these initiatives will remain in place, especially given that Trump has praised private prisons. "I do think we can do a lot of privatizations and private prisons. It seems to work a lot better," Trump said last year. Hours after his election victory, the stock prices of the two largest private-prison companies soared. Yates pushed hard for sentencing change legislation in Congress, giving speeches and meeting with Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The effort had a broad coalition of bipartisan support, including from the NAACP , the conservative Koch brothers, and lawmakers including Sens. Mike Lee , R-Utah, and Cory Booker , D-N. J. But the legislation, which would have reduced federal mandatory minimum sentences for drug and gun crimes, making the reductions retroactive for some inmates, went nowhere because ...

Acting Attorney General Sally Yates Orders Doj Not To Defend Trump's Immigration Ban

... Barack Obama who is serving as head of the Department of Justice until President Donald Trump's replacement is confirmed by the Senate, ordered DOJ employees on Monday not to defend Trump's entry bans on refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations. In a letter to top DOJ lawyers , Yates wrote she disagreed with the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel's vetting of the executive order and is "at present, I am not convinced that the defense of the executive order is consistent with [her] responsibilities nor am I convinced that the executive order is lawful.". 23 PHOTOS. Protesters and lawyers welcome international travelers in airports amid immigration ban. See Gallery. Protesters and lawyers welcome international travelers in airports amid immigration ban. A young girl dances with an American flag in baggage claim while women pray behind her during a protest against the travel ban imposed by U. S. President Donald Trump's executive order, at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Dallas, Texas, U. S. January 29, 2017. REUTERS/Laura Buckman. ...

Sally Yates Tells Justice Department Not To Defend Trump Travel Order In Court

... my cabinet picks for purely political reasons. They have nothing going but to obstruct. Now have an Obama A. G.,” Mr. Trump wrote. Ms. Yates said the Office of Legal Counsel review “does not take account of statements made by an administration or it surrogates close in time to the issuance of an Executive Order that may bear on the order’s purpose.”. “And importantly, it does not address whether any policy choice embodied in an Executive Order is wise or just,” Ms. Yates continued. Critics have falsely called the executive order a “Muslim ban,” though Mr. Trump did call for this before his election. The administration has stated that the goal of the order is to cut off access to the United States from countries with histories of terrorism, and notes that 40 majority-Muslim countries were not included in the order. Mr. Trump ’s order does not explicitly ban Muslims from entering the U. ...