31-01-2017 03:47 via 10tv.com

Trump fires acting attorney general

President Donald Trump has fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yates after she announced she would not defend his controversial immigration order.He is naming Dana Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to serve in her place.The White House press office says in a statement Monday that Yates "has betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States."The statement calls Yates an Obama administration appoi
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