In Yates versus Trump, the Constitution wins
Washington
THE Monday night massacre as President Donald Trump's firing of acting Attorney General Sally Yates was inevitably called - lacked the grand madness of Richard Nixon's famous firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox on Oct 20, 1973, which prompted the resignations of the attorney general and the deputy attorney general.
Trump's peremptory dismissal of Yates for refusing to enforce his executive order on immigration came symbolically at the beginning of his presidency, not with the end in sight, as in Nixon's case.
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