Sally Yates

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Sally Yates (2016)

Sally Quillian Yates (born August 20, 1960 in Atlanta , Georgia ) is an American lawyer . From 2015 to 2017 she was United States Deputy Attorney General (German: "Deputy Attorney General of the United States") and from January 20, 2017 until she was dismissed by President Trump on January 30, 2017, she assumed the executive office of United States Attorney General ( "Minister of Justice").

Life

Yates graduated with honors from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1986 and subsequently worked for King & Spalding law firm in Atlanta.

Yates was in 1989 in the civil service and was first with inquiries into corruption involved before in place of David Nahmias to federal prosecutor has been appointed for the Northern District of Georgia. There she represented the prosecution in the case of the bomber Eric Rudolph . In December 2014, Yates was named Deputy Secretary of Justice of the United States by President Barack Obama on the suggestion of his predecessor, James M. Cole .

In the last few days leading up to the US presidential election in November 2016, Yates, along with her superior Attorney General Lynch , came under fire from the Democratic Party after the Justice Department failed to prevent FBI Director James Comey from sending a letter to Congress , in which he announced that there may be a criminal investigation into presidential candidate Hillary Clinton . The letter was seen as an aid to the election success of the later President Donald Trump.

After the US presidential election on November 8, 2016, Yates agreed to take over the post of acting US attorney general in the Trump cabinet from January 20, 2017 until the US Senate officially confirmed a attorney general. Trump nominated Jeff Sessions for this office.

After Trump issued Executive Order 13769 on January 27, 2017 , banning citizens of several Muslim countries from entering the United States, Yates wrote to Justice Department staff that they were not convinced that their agency was defending this presidential decree one of their tasks is that the decree itself is lawful. On the evening of January 30, 2017, Yates then received a letter signed by Trump employee John DeStefano informing her of her dismissal; the process was referred to by several media as "Monday Night Massacre" based on a similar decision by Richard Nixon . In the official statement, she was later accused of "betraying the Department of Justice by refusing to implement a defense decree to protect the citizens of the United States." Successor was Dana Boente appointed.

Yates is married to Comer Yates and they have two children.

Web links

Commons : Sally Yates  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b David Bill: UGA law graduate Sally Yates nominated for US deputy attorney general . University of Georgia , December 23, 2014, accessed May 9, 2017.
  2. ^ A b Meet the Deputy Attorney General. US Department of Justice website , September 14, 2016, archived from the original on January 31, 2017 ; accessed on May 9, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ Matt Apuzzo: Trump's Talk About Muslims Led Acting Attorney General to Defy Ban . The New York Times , January 31, 2017, accessed May 9, 2017.
  4. ↑ Josh Gerstein: Trump will allow US attorneys to stay past Friday . Politico.com , January 17, 2017, accessed May 9, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b Michael Shear, Mark Landler, Matt Apuzzo, Eric Lichtblau: Trump Fires Acting Attorney General Who Defied Him . New York Times , January 30, 2017, accessed on May 9, 2017: “At present, I am not convinced that the defense of the executive order is consistent with these responsibilities, nor am I convinced that the executive order is lawful … ”
  6. ↑ Monday night massacre is a wake-up call to Senate Democrats at edition.cnn.com, January 31, 2017, accessed July 6, 2017
  7. ↑ Chris Cillizza: Donald Trump firing Sally Yates isn't the big story. How he did it is. The Washington Post , January 31, 2017, accessed May 9, 2017.
  8. ↑ Trump dismisses acting Minister of Justice . FAZ.net , January 31, 2017, accessed on May 9, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Yates, Sally
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yates, Sally Quillian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American government official and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlanta , Georgia