Flashback: Sessions Wanted Yates To Follow Law Over President...
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as posted by the channel...But that was years ago. Will Sessions hold himself to the same standard today? (Spoilerno.) Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"Acting Attorney General Sally Yates was fired Monday night for defying President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration.
But the very notion of her pushing back at the president was brought up — and encouraged — at her 2015 Senate confirmation hearing as deputy attorney general, when she was grilled about being able to challenge Barack Obama if she disagreed with him.
And who was the man who introduced the idea of dissent?
Republican Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, who is now poised to himself become the U.S. Attorney General in the Trump administration.
"You have to watch out because people will be asking you to do things you just need to say 'no' about," Sessions told Yates. "Do you think the attorney general has the responsibility to say no to the president if he asks for something that's improper? A lot of people have defended the [Loretta] Lynch nomination, for example, by saying, 'Well [Obama] appoints somebody who's going to execute his views. What's wrong with that?'"
"But if the views the president wants to execute are unlawful, should the attorney general or the deputy attorney general say 'no?'" Sessions added.
"Senator, I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution," Yates responded, "and to give their independent legal advice to the president.””*
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