Today's Dismantling of Democracy Update
Jan. 30th, 2017 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilman(now-former) AG Sally Yates. Remember the name. Fired for upholding her oath rather than obeying unlawful orders. More courage in that woman than the entire GOP Senatorial roll call.
"I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter."
Nowhere in that oath does it reference obedience to the president. The AG does not serve the president. The AG serves the Constitution, and the people for whom it was written.
Sally Q Yates is an American hero.
"I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter."
Nowhere in that oath does it reference obedience to the president. The AG does not serve the president. The AG serves the Constitution, and the people for whom it was written.
Sally Q Yates is an American hero.
