On Monday night, President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Sally Yates for refusing to defend his recent executive order banning refugees and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
According to the New York Times, Yates had written a letter to lawyers in the Justice Department on Monday advising them not to defend Trumpโs executive order. โAt present, I am not convinced that the defense of the executive order is consistent with these responsibilities, nor am I convinced that the executive order is lawful,โ she wrote.
Seeing a woman stand up to Trump so fearlessly โ despite the fact that she would certainly be fired for doing so โ struck a major chord for many of the women watching.
By late Monday night and into Tuesday morning, the hashtags #ThankYouSally, #ThankYouSallyYates and #SallyYates were trending on Twitter, with women acknowledging the audacity it took for Yates to take such a powerful stance, and lose her job in the process.
Yatesโ heroic move serves as an important reminder to feminists everywhere: human rights are womenโs rights, and womenโs rights are human rights.
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