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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYoung Turk Cenk Uygur calls for Trumps impeachment over Sally Yates: What choice do we have?
Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks said Donald Trump had triggered a constitutional crisis with only one real remedy: impeachment.
Trump fired the acting attorney general, Sally Yates, on Monday night when the Obama appointee refused to disobey a court order halting enforcement of an executive order banning travelers from certain majority-Muslim nations from entering the U.S.
A federal court tells you, you are not allowed to do that, Uygur said. Do you respect the rule of law or dont you respect it?
Uygur accused the Trump administration of violating the constitutional check on executive power by the judicial branch and he said the legislative branch should execute its own check on executive overreach.
We have a President who says I dont follow the law, I dont care, Im already sitting in the seat, Uygur said. There really isnt any other legal action to be taken against the President who wont follow the law other than impeachment.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/young-turk-cenk-uygur-calls-for-trumps-impeachment-over-sally-yates-what-choice-do-we-have/
Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)That Trump's downfall will be his ignoring of the legislative and judicial branches.
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)Herr Twittler von Shot Gibbon's mental health should be questioned and examined by professionals. This alone is enough to impeach his crazy, shit flinging ass. He's unfit to serve in ANY capacity within our government.
Sorry for language but it can't be helped when I discuss Shit Gibbon.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Cenk, that is.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Of the OP, that is...
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Would be the connection I was making.
(Then we wouldn't have to worry about getting the Republicans to agree to impeach him)
question everything
(47,487 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Standing with Clinton should have been your first choice you ratfucking ass. The election of Trump helps to line his wallet with articles like this. People seem to have short memories as to who this guy has been serving.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)I'm not in the least bit interested in what he has to say. What the degenerate did was perfectly legal so obsessing over this isn't productive at all.
randome
(34,845 posts)First, Trump can fire anyone who isn't appointed by Congress. Secondly, that is NOT what Yates said. Uygur's deliberate misreading of what occurred shows he is not really on our side, after all.
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onenote
(42,715 posts)No federal court ordered the federal government not to defend the EO. Yates took the position that the EO wasn't lawful and thus DOJ wouldn't defend it. She knew she'd be fired, but stood up as a matter of principle. But she wasn't fired because she wouldn't defy a court order. And while there was nothing illegal about what she did, there also was nothing illegal about Trump's response. In short, she was fired because she lawfully defied the person with legal power to fire her for doing so.
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)I take no position on this guy being on our side or not, but the point is that this comment and claim sets anyone who supports it up to be exposed as either foolish or lying. Either way, not good.
liquid diamond
(1,917 posts)wiggs
(7,814 posts)Christmas list?
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,415 posts)is clearly more of a looming "Constitutional Crisis" than this!
LexVegas
(6,070 posts)dawg
(10,624 posts)Cenk Uygur can go piss up a rope.