It
is a very simple proposition. Our Constitution vests all executive
power — not some of it, all of it — in the president of the United
States. Executive-branch officials do not have their own power. They are
delegated by the president to execute his power. If they object to the
president’s policies, their choice is clear: salute and enforce the
president’s directives, or honorably resign. There is no third way.
No one knows this better than high-ranking officials of the
Department of Justice. That is why President Trump was right to fire
Acting Attorney General Sally Yates.Over the weekend, President Trump issued an executive order temporarily restricting the admission into the United States of aliens from various Muslim-majority countries, as well as aliens from Syria and elsewhere who are claiming refugee status. Naturally, this has triggered protests by Democrats and the Left. They erroneously claim that Trump’s executive order violates the Constitution, statutory law, American tradition, and human decency.
For inexplicable reasons, the new president left Yates in place to run the Justice Department in anticipation of the confirmation of Senator Jeff Sessions. A faithful Obama-appointed progressive, Yates obviously knew which way the political wind was blowing in her tribe.
Like most Democrats, Yates objects to the president’s executive order. Fair enough. But she is not a political operative, she was a Justice Department official — the highest such official. If her opposition to the president’s policy was as deeply held as she says, her choice was clear: enforce the president’s policy or quit.
Instead, she chose insubordination: ...
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