Is the US official who refused to defend Trump's travel ban a hero or a villain?
President Trump fired Yates over policy differences. It may have been unwise for him to do so, but it was clearly within his authority.
THEN US deputy attorney-general Sally Quillian Yates and FBI Director James Comey are sworn in to testify at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington in 2015(photo credit: REUTERS)ByALAN DERSHOWITZ