Sally Yates isn't a hero, she violated an oath she swore on the Bible

Yates is lucky she was only fired.

President Trump is firing people who don't understand how to put duty above politics or who their boss is. The President fired the Acting Attorney General, Sally Yates yesterday following an act of deliberate insubordination.

LOS ANGELES, CA (California Network) - Acting Attorney General Sally Yates probably couldn't wait to be fired. Appointed by President Obama, Yates found herself serving President Trump until her replacement, Jeff Sessions could be confirmed.

Over the weekend, President Trump made a decision that is his judgment was the right thing to do. He halted immigration from several countries that are predominately Muslim.

As private citizens, we are free to form our opinions about this decision. At least tens of thousands of Americans took to the streets and airports to publicly protest President Trump's order. This behavior is protected under the First Amendment of our Constitution.

What else is protected under the Constitution? President Trump's order. The President has very broad powers to regulate immigration.

If a person does not like a presidential order, they have the right as a private citizen to sue. A judge may then halt enforcement of the order. That's precisely what happened in this case. But before that could happen, the Acting Attorney General decided to stage a coup of her own.

As Acting Attorney General, Sally Yates had a duty. That duty is to serve as an extension of the President himself, ensuring the enforcement of the orders he gives. The Attorney General has no independent power, no right to refuse a presidential order. Not even if the order is unconstitutional. This is how it has to be; otherwise, the president would be eternally at odds with his administration.

If an Attorney General has an attack of conscience and simply cannot execute the orders of the president, they have a responsibility to resign. They are then free to honorably protest the deplorable nature of the order that forced their resignation. That's how the system works for a reason.

Instead, Yates attempted a coup. In blatant defiance of the Office of the President, she ordered the entire Justice Department to disobey the order.

Imagine if this has taken place in the military. Imagine if the president ordered the military to respond to an imminent threat to our country, and the general in charge ordered his troops to stand down in defiance of the order.

At best, the act is sabotage or sedition. At worst, a form of treason.

Yates, being an Obama appointee, violated her oath of office and acted politically instead of performing her duty. She did not resign but was fired in disgrace. She has certainly committed a serious ethical breech, and she has possibly broken the law. She should consider herself lucky she was only fired.

Of course, liberal America will fawn over her and treat her as some hero. But she isn't a hero at all. Deliberate defiance of a lawfully elected president and his lawfully given order is far from heroic. Choosing to obstruct such an order instead of resigning reveals that Yates is loyal to her party, but not the Republic to which she is sworn to protect. What do you call a person who violates an oath sworn on the Bible itself?

Now it is clear what is wrong with our country. Loyalty is to party and ideology, and not to the Republic. When America finally collapses, look to people like Yates when you seek someone to blame.