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Dershowitz: Acting AG Made 'Serious Mistake' Defying Trump Order
Monday, January 30, 2017 08:33 PM
By: Greg Richter
Acting Attorney General Sally Yates made a "serious mistake" Monday when she told Justice Department lawyers not to defend President Donald Trump's executive order temporarily banning people from seven majority-Muslim countries, emeritus Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said.
Yates, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, is engaging in "holdover heroism," Dershowitz told CNN's Erin Burnett.
"It's so easy to be a heroine when you're not appointed by this president, and when you're on the other side," he said. "She made a serious mistake."
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