Jay Sekulow: Acting AG Sally Yates ‘Tried to Become Judge, Jury and Prosecutor’

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SEKULOW: "So I think, look, the president had no choice. You had an acting attorney general that tried to become judge, jury and prosecutor. She made a determination not based on the law but based on a moral view that she disagreed with this particular executive order. Whether or not you agree, I think it was right. The attorney general’s job is to defend laws of the united States. And she doesn’t get to determine this on her own. By the way, the kwraoupbd lying facts here, which not a lot of people are reporting. You have, which is great. The office of legal counsel both within the department of justice and the office of legal counsel inside the White House both approved of both the substance and the form of that executive order. So the fact is that Sally Yates was grandstanding, she was politicizing it. She, in my view, she completely — "
SMITH: "Did she betray the Justice Department? Did she betray the justice Department, as the White House said?"
SEKULOW: "Yeah, I think she did. I’ll say this. How in the world can the attorney general of the united States do what she did? Make an announcement, I’m not going to defend an order of the president of the United States when the president of the united States has the constitutional authority to issue that order? So this isn’t where there’s sometimes the department of justice will confess error in a case when they’ve talked to the kpebive or they’ve talked to Congress. Here she did this on her own. This was a unilateral decision on her part. She now pays the consequence of it. She’s been terminated which is exactly what the president had to do."