Everywhere you turn, it seems the 45th President of the United States is being disavowed, undermined, defied and delegitimized.
But don’t weep for President Trump. This is a classic case of chickens coming home to roost.
The refusal of (now former) Acting Attorney General Sally Yates to defend Trump’s immigration executive order is just the latest example of a collective refusal to buy into Trump’s rightfully won new authority.
As odious and inane as his refugee ban is, Trump was right to fire Yates. As Case Western Law School Prof. Jonathan Adler writes in the Washington Post, she should have resigned, as Attorney General Eliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus did when they decided they could not fire President Richard Nixon’s special prosecutor at his request.
The incident follows countless other acts of mischief and mutiny since Trump was elected.
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