Former acting attorney general Sally Yates described her account of finding out about the Trump administration's travel ban during a commencement speech at Harvard Law School on May 24. Yates was fired for not defending the travel ban. Yates, as deputy attorney general during the last years of President Barack Obama’s term, was to stay briefly on staff for “continuity.”“It was supposed to be an uneventful time,” Yates said Wednesday at the Harvard Law School class day ceremony. People protest against the travel ban at Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., on Jan. 28. (Yeganeh Torbati/Reuters)“This is not what I was expecting,” she told the Harvard Law graduates.

Source: Washington Post May 25, 2017 08:11 UTC