US attorney general Sally Yates fired in Muslim ban row
US President Donald Trump has sacked the country's acting attorney general after she took the rare step of defying the White House by refusing to enforce his sweeping immigration ban. Sally Yates had early on Monday ordered Justice Department lawyers to stop defending Trump's executive order, resulting in her dismissal just hours later. "The acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, has betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a […]
