New DOJ Records Show Strong Support by Top DOJ Officials for Yates’ Refusal of Trump Travel Ban

Judicial Watch ^ | 12/5/17 | Staff

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Judicial Watch today released two productions (335 pages and 44 pages) of Justice Department (DOJ) documents showing strong support by top DOJ officials for former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates’ refusal to enforce President Trump’s Middle East travel ban executive order. In one email, Andrew Weissmann, one of Robert Mueller’s top prosecutors and formerly the Obama-era Chief of the Justice Department’s Criminal Fraud Section, applauds Yates writing: “I am so proud. And in awe. Thank you so much. All my deepest respects.”

Judicial Watch obtained the documents through a May 2017 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the Justice Department failed to respond to a February FOIA request seeking Yates’ emails from her government account (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:17-cv-00832)) for the time period she served as Acting Attorney General for President Trump.

The emails, several sent from official Justice Department email addresses, show strong support for Yates, who was fired for disobeying a direct order from the President:

Thomas Delahanty, then the United States Attorney for Maine wrote: “You are my hero.”

Liz Aloi, a career service employee and Chief of the Justice Department’s Special Financial Investigations Unit told Yates she was “Inspirational and heroic.”

Emily Gray Rice, then the U.S. Attorney for New Hampshire and an Obama appointee said: “AAG Yates, thank you, as always, for making us proud. It is truly an honor to work for you.”

Obama appointee Barbara McQuade, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan told Yates, “Thank you for your courage and leadership. This is wonderful news.”

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Federal Labor Relations Act.

The Federal Labor Relations Act of 1978 (FLRA) is a federal law which establishes collective bargaining rights for most employees of the federal government in the United States.

The FLRA was adopted after President Jimmy Carter pushed for legislation to regularize federal labor relations.

In passing the act, Congress declared that it wished to encourage collective bargaining between federal employees and their employers. Congress declared that collective bargaining is "in the public interest" because, among other things, it "contributes to the effective conduct of public business" and "facilitates and encourages the amicable settlements of disputes between employees and their employers involving conditions of employment."

With only a some major exceptions, it is patterned on the National Labor Relations Act.

[Bernard Marx]

Now remember that the Marxist rabble that rioted outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago became the party establishment.

Glad someone besides me remembers that. The Marxists of the New Left were mostly Red Diaper babies, the progeny of active Communists in the U.S. To really understand what's happened since then it's very helpful to read David Horowitz's books.

Many here don't trust him because he was a former Radical and Red Diaper Marxist himself but IMO he's done more to explain and expose that movement than any other writer I'm aware of. He rejected his past views and has shown a lot of courage exposing campus indoctrination and radicalization of university faculties.

[arrogantsob]

Employees can “bargain” but just not over pay or strike when not satisfied. Think Air Controllers and Reagan.

Congress sets the pay scale for federal employees.

[itsahoot]

Congress sets the pay scale for federal employees.

Congress has to approve the salary, but you can bet your sweet bippie that the union has negotiated with them.

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Unions are powerless to set wage rates without the power of extortion- the strike.

An agreed upon rate between a union and an employer is not submitted to Congress.

If only other unions were as powerless as the federal ones.