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Undated: Sally Caroline Yates (née Quillian; August 20, 1960) is an American lawyer. She served as a United States Attorney and later United States Deputy Attorney General, having been appointed to both positions by President Barack Obama.
Following the inauguration of Donald Trump and the departure of Attorney General Loretta Lynch on January 20, 2017, Yates served as Acting Attorney General for 10 days. She was dismissed for insubordination by President Trump on January 30, after she instructed the Justice Department not to make legal arguments defending Executive Order 13769, which temporarily banned the admission of refugees and barred travel from certain Muslim-majority countries. Rather than defend it, Yates stated the order was neither defensible in court nor consistent with the Constitution.[1][2] Large portions of the order were subsequently blocked by federal courts, which ruled that those sections violated the Fifth Amendment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Yates
-- 2016 --
November 10: new evidence suggests that American democracy is under severe strain. In a recent survey, two-thirds of Americans could not name all three branches of the federal government.1 Only a third could identify Joe Biden as the vice president or name a single Supreme Court justice.2 Declining proportions say that free elections are important in a democratic society.3 The crisis came to a head in the 2016 presidential election, in which a candidate with authoritarian leanings captured the presidency of the United States. Moving forward, the question has become: How can our public schools do a better job of educating children for our pluralistic democracy?
https://tcf.org/content/report/putting-democracy-back-public-education/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4b-k9uXA3wIVxB6tBh3fkgKbEAAYAiAAEgKpHPD_BwE&session=1
November 17: One Small Step for Dictatorship
The United States is founded on a political philosophy, and a profoundly revolutionary one at that. The Declaration of Independence expresses the viewpoint eloquently: that individuals possess “certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” and “that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
The Statue of Liberty symbolizes this vision, beckoning all who yearn to breathe free. The United States, having discarded most forms of tyranny, and having fought a bloody civil war over its toleration of the glaring, depressing exception of slavery, is more than the land of liberty. It’s a land where you shouldn’t even be able to imagine a dictator arising. The people will too jealously demand and too jealously guard their freedom.
https://ari.aynrand.org/blog/2016/11/17/one-small-step-for-dictatorship
-- 2017 --
January 30: Sally Yates fired by Trump after acting US attorney general defied travel ban
White House says Obama appointee ‘betrayed’ justice department with letter instructing officials not to enforce president’s executive order
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/30/justice-department-trump-immigration-acting-attorney-general-sally-yates
February 2: Sally Yates Doesn’t Care Who You Are
One last testament to the integrity of the attorney general who defied the president.
Sally Yates spent decades defying enraged politicians before Donald Trump
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/02/sally-yates-spent-decades-defying-enraged-politicians-before-donald-trump.html
May 2: Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates is prepared to testify before a Senate panel next week that she gave a forceful warning to the White House regarding then-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn nearly three weeks before he was fired, contradicting the administration's version of events, sources familiar with her account tell CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/politics/sally-yates-michael-flynn-testimony-contradict/index.html
May 8: Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates testified Monday that she told the White House that then-National Security Adviser Mike Flynn could be "blackmailed by the Russians," because he misled the vice president about his "problematic" conduct.
"We were concerned that the American people had been misled about the underlying conduct and what General Flynn had done," Yates told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sally-yates-acting-attorney-general-fired-trump-testifies-flynn-saga-n756446
May 8: Sally Yates Was Fired For Deeming Trump’s Travel Ban Unlawful. She Doesn’t Regret It.
“I made a determination that I believed that it was unlawful. I also thought it was inconsistent with the principles of the Department of Justice. And I said no.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sally-yates-trump-olc_us_5910cd34e4b0e7021e9a2f7a
May 8: Full transcript: Sally Yates and James Clapper testify on Russian election interference
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05/08/full-transcript-sally-yates-and-james-clapper-testify-on-russian-election-interference/?utm_term=.ab620ae5e0ee
December 4: Sally Yates on Donald Trump's FBI tweets: 'The only thing in tatters is the President's respect for the rule of law'
'The dedicated men and women of the FBI deserve better'
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/sally-yates-donald-trump-fbi-twitter-us-president-rule-law-russia-investigation-robert-mueller-a8090261.html
December 5: Mueller deputy praised DOJ official after she defied Trump travel ban order: 'I am so proud'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mueller-deputy-praised-doj-official-after-she-defied-trump-travel-ban-order-i-am-so-proud
December 19: Former Attorney General Sally Yates pens wake-up call to Trump’s America without ever mentioning his name
‘Stand up. Speak out. Our country needs all of us to raise our collective voices in support of our democratic ideals and institutions’
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sally-yates-pens-wake-up-call-to-trumps-america-without-ever-mentioning-his-name-2017-12-19
December 19: Sally Yates, fired by Trump, calls on the nation to honor the rule of law
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sally-yates-fired-by-trump-calls-on-the-nation-to-honor-the-rule-of-law
-- 2018 --
January 3: New book claims Trump called Sally Yates the c-word
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/367287-new-book-claims-trump-called-sally-yates-the-c-word
January 3: Donald Trump’s vicious and vulgar sexist attack on Sally Yates
https://www.palmerreport.com/politics/yates-attack-sally-trump/7137/
January 31: IRLI Sues DOJ for Sally Yates’ Records on Travel Ban While Acting Attorney General
On behalf of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) today filed an action against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), seeking the communications of former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates related to her handling of the Trump administration’s executive order to restrict travel from select terror-risk nations.
http://www.irli.org/single-post/2018/01/31/IRLI-Sues-DOJ-for-Sally-Yates%E2%80%99-Records-on-Travel-Ban-While-Acting-Attorney-General?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjpHiitfA3wIVyrrACh0qbQy_EAAYAiAAEgLohPD_BwE
April 5: Sally Yates Says While ‘Elections Have Consequences,’ Trump Goes Too Far
“Elections have consequences, and I think you have to expect in a change in administrations, a change in party, that there are going to be policy decisions that are made that you don’t think are a good idea,” she said. “What worries me more than any of that is the relentless attack on democratic institutions and norms, and the impact that that can have on our country not just during the term of a Trump presidency, but in the years to come as well.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/us/politics/sally-yates-times-talks.html
April 6: Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, who was fired last year for refusing to defend President Trump’s travel ban, says she’s increasingly concerned by Trump’s “relentless attack on democratic institutions.” Speaking with The New York Times, Yates said that she had no problem with dealing with policy changes she disliked during her 27-year career at the Justice Department, but noted that Trump’s repeated claims that the Justice Department is partisan and biased threatened to undermine the public’s faith in the democratic system. Yates is slated to appear next week at the 9th annual Women in the World New York Summit, where she’ll be interviewed by Tina Brown.
https://womenintheworld.com/2018/04/06/sally-yates-issues-stark-warning-about-trumps-attacks-on-democratic-norms/
April 13:
The crowd who cheered her was at the ninth annual Women in the World Summit, a three-day event focusing on female leadership, launched by former editorial guru Tina Brown; others appearing this year included or will include Hillary Clinton; Viola Davis; Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska; Julianna Margulies; Misty Copeland; Diane von Furstenberg; and Parkland gun-control activist Delaney Tarr.
On Friday, Yates — whose onstage interview, conducted by Brown, was dubbed “The Woman Who Wouldn’t Back Down” — spoke about both the misfortune and honor of having her nearly three-decade career with the Department of Justice end with her firing.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/woman-wouldnt-back-donald-trump-sally-yates-181144134.html
April 18: Sally Yates: Trump Seems To View The Justice Department As His Own Personal Lawyers
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/04/15/sally_yates_trump_seems_to_view_the_justice_department_as_his_own_personal_lawyers.html
April 25: Sally Yates on Trump’s travel ban and protecting the rule of law
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/sally-yates-on-trumps-travel-ban-and-protecting-the-rule-of-law
May 8: One year later: the lessons from Sally Yates’ testimony
It’s been one year since fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates testified on Capitol Hill about her warnings to the Trump White House Counsel about Michael Flynn. Her words are even more important given what we now know about the Russia investigation.
https://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/one-year-later-the-lessons-from-sally-yates-testimony-1228835907739
May 8: Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates has a new job at her old law firm.
Atlanta-based King & Spalding on Tuesday announced that Yates is returning to the firm where she began her legal career more than 30 years ago.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/ex-justice-official-yates-heads-to-law-firm-where-she-worked/
May 21: Sally Yates: Trump has taken his ‘assault on the rule of law to a new level’
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/388599-sally-yates-trump-has-taken-his-assault-on-the-rule-of-law-to-a
May 27: Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who was fired by President Trump over her refusal to enforce his travel ban, called Trump’s demands for an investigation into whether the FBI spied on his campaign “truly unprecedented.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/sally-yates-on-spygate-trump-has-taken-the-assault-on-the-rule-of-law-to-a-new-level
May 31: Forget Samantha Bee—Donald Trump Has Called Women ‘C*nt’ for 30 Years
The White House’s war on the ‘Full Frontal’ host risks renewing public attention on Trump’s own alleged use of the word ‘c*nt’ to describe at least three women since the 1980s.
Trump is reported to have used the oath in reference to former acting attorney general Sally Yates, whom Trump fired after she reached the conclusion that an executive order banning people from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States was unconstitutional.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/forget-samantha-beedonald-trump-has-called-women-cnt-for-30-years
June 27: Sally Yates Backs Up Bob Mueller at Aspen Ideas Festival
https://www.aspenideas.org/blog/sally-yates-backs-bob-mueller-aspen-ideas-festival?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkLO_gOPA3wIVCL3sCh0SUwTNEAMYAyAAEgIAavD_BwE
July 20: Trump’s Loyalties Lie With Putin’s Russia, Claims Sally Yates
https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-loyalties-lie-putins-russia-claims-sally-yates-1034414
August 23: Yates Says Broad Coalition Aims to Break 'Over-Incarceration' Cycle Despite Trump Shifts
https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2018/08/23/yates-says-broad-coalition-aims-to-break-cycle-of-over-incarceration-despite-trump-administration-shifts/?slreturn=20181127145422
October 19: Sally Yates on Her Ten Days in the Trump Administration
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/sally-yates-her-ten-days-trump-administration
October 24: Sally Yates gave her sharpest criticism yet against Trump: 'Is all of this a momentary detour? Or has our country lost its way?'
https://www.businessinsider.com/sally-yates-on-trump-white-house-dnc-speech-2018-10
November 8: Sally Yates: President Trump fired Sessions to hire ‘political crony’ to protect him from Mueller investigation
The Atlanta native and former U. S. Deputy Attorney General under President Obama had strong words regarding President Donald Trump’s decision to fire Jeff Session as Attorney General.
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/sally-yates-president-trump-fired-sessions-to-hire-political-crony-to-protect-him-from-mueller-investigation/85-4392010b-2722-4b11-868c-c7a58d9fba34
November 12: Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates explains how Donald Trump is trying to corrupt the Justice Department
https://www.recode.net/2018/11/12/18086580/sally-yates-attorney-general-justice-department-doj-donald-trump-corruption-kara-swisher-podcast
November 28: Sally Yates calls Trump’s attempt to undermine faith in institutions ‘dangerous’
Yates, who was fired by President Donald Trump for refusing to carry out his travel ban, said his “systematic effort” to corrode the legitimacy of the Justice Department, the intelligence community, the courts and the free press could cause damage that outlasts the administration.
https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/nation/sally-yates-calls-trump-s-attempt-to-undermine-faith-in/article_d469aeb1-3053-59cf-a483-59fb97a137c7.html
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