Sally Yates: Trump administration behavior 'should be alarming to us as a country'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill


BY MAX GREENWOOD - 06/27/17 12:30 PM EDT

Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates slammed the Trump administration on Tuesday for ignoring legal and political norms, arguing that concerns about President Trump's conduct should go much deeper than whether he committed an impeachable offense.

“Surely (criminality is) not our bar. That’s not the standard of conduct that we’re looking for from our president or our administration," she said in a sweeping panel discussion at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

"I mean, It shouldn’t just be whether you’ve committed a felony or not. It should also be whether or not you’re observing the kinds of norms that we’ve been talking about here today.”

Yates said that she had "total confidence" in special counsel Robert Mueller, who was appointed in May to oversee the Justice Department's investigation into Russian election meddling, possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin and the circumstances around the firing of former FBI Director James Comey.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/news/339663-sally-yates-trump-administration-behavior-should-be-alarming-to-us-as-a-country

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Yates: 'I don't really see running for office'

BY MAX GREENWOOD - 06/27/17 12:55 PM EDT

Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates said Tuesday that she doesn't see a political campaign in her future.

Yates became a hero for some Democrats in January when President Trump fired her after she refused to defend his travel ban as head of the Department of Justice.

"I don’t really see running for office," Yates said at the Aspen Ideas Festival. "I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to do next. I’m taking some time with my family now and starting to talk to some folks. And I want to be able to find an avenue where I can continue to have an impact on issues that I care about. "But running for office has never been anything I could picture myself doing."

Speculation swirled in the months after Yates's ouster that she could run for the Democratic nomination for governor of Georgia. But Yates quelled those rumors in May, telling the New Yorker that she was "totally ruling out the governor’s race."

“I recognize that I may have a voice that I didn’t have before,” Yates said. “And part of what I want to be able to do is to figure out how I can responsibly use that voice in a way to impact things that I think really matter. I just don’t know what form that takes.”

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/339669-yates-i-dont-really-see-running-for-office

[katmondoo]

1. Love Sally Yates

[DeminPennswoods]

2. Criminal justice reform advocacy would be a nice

niche for her, it seems to me.

[Sunlei]

5. No, just like she stated..We need her to point out the criminals NOW.

[athena]

3. Sally Yates is someone who puts her country ahead of her own needs.

She is a truly admirable individual, light years ahead of people like Comey. Maybe we can make her Attorney General if we win back the Presidency in 2020.

[Sunlei]

4. REPUBLICANS BEHAVIOR IS ALARMING MS YATES, the way they use their crappy president to cram

their anti-Americans agenda.

[Leghorn21]

6. "I recognize that I may have a voice that I didnt have before" - yes, SO DO WE, MS. YATES!!

I say, absolutely: rest up with your family, plant a little garden, take a little trip to, oh, the Tetons...and then come on back to us, m'am, cause we are gonna run you for SOMETHING, and oh how happy we will be!!

Okay, maybe not...but it sure is great that's she's out and about and speaking her truth, and that a top-notch career awaits her in whatever she chooses to do...

ALL HAIL SALLY YATES!!

[SusanaMontana41]

13. I'll second that!

I don't even care what career path she takes next. As long as she's engaged, that's good enough for me.

[vkkv]

7. Well... YES. IT IS ALARMING !!!!!!

[Solly Mack]

8. It should, and it is, for those of us who give a damn about people and the country.

[TomCADem]

9. No Truer Words Have Been Spoken

Whether the President has comitted a felony should not be the bar.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. K&R

[SergeStorms]

11. Ahhh, come on guys and gals.....

President Trump is still learning on the job here. He has no idea what's legal and what's not legal. The poor guy just can't catch a break.

[mdbl]

12. No kidding Sally. It started with GW Bush in 2000 and here were are 18 years later.

The GOP are a bunch of law-breakers. What a great idea to put them in power so they can get away with it all.

[riversedge]

14. Hoping to hear lots from Sally Yates.