Sleep. Reporter theres a fear growing that some may be misled into signing away their rights. This of course makes the long wait painful. Finally after four hours and two quarantines, elenfar came home to her husband. Its okay. Its like, you go Grocery Shopping and you come back home and you feel like someone changed the law. You cannot go home. Reporter tonight all that matters is being back together but hamid knows theyre a long way from feeling comfortable in the country they call home. Im going to start worrying about her green card and whats going to happen with her family. Is she going to be able to ever see then again. Reporter now the lawyers that you just saw in that story are discouraging people from signing what is known as an i407. Thats essentially a legal document agreeing to give up your permanent resident status. There were some lawyers that were confused or worried that people who didnt speak english well would be confused. Theyre going to stay here to make sure that p
Protest and demonstrate against him starting the first day after his inauguration but it turns out that wasnt a one off and turns out giant protests against the new president dont need weeks of planning and Big Coalition efforts by existing organizers and existing organizations bringing people together from all around the country. Turns out you can get a really big protest against our new president almost any day justice because the transition didnt get it together to have Top Justice Department officials in place in times to start the new administration. Lot of administrations dont. Lot of transitions to a new presidency will leave important they asked her to stay on. She became acting attorney place. Jobs unfilled at least until people can get confirmed and in place. They didnt get all their seats filled at the Justice Department. They asked her to stay on. She became acting attorney general. As acting attorney general, she is responsible for leading the Justice Department in all of
think he had a key role in the prosecution of basketball mcdonald the former virginia governor. which is a story we followed on this show. we know his first act was to rescind the order from sally yates the woman who was fired tonight from the president. which essentially means that dana bonte has ordered justice department lawyers that they must defend the trump executive order in court. how do you think that will play out? i don t think this is an order that s defensible in court ultimately. the constitution is very clear that you can favor a certain religion. you can t disfavor another religion as the government. you can t discriminate among people based on their religion. and this order does all of those things quite clearly. and it s even clearer when you look at, you know, the way that trump has described how he came to enact this order.
reporting or any further understanding about how this happened in the justice department or the consequences now that it has? we actually just got word just about ten minutes ago now that the replacement for sally yates, dana has now rescinded her order. so that was his official act as acting attorney general was to announce that he was rescinding yates s order and defending the immigration order. that just came down within the last few minutes. terms of that order it s presumably the case that the department of justice lawyers who would be defending the order in court would those be people who are brand-new political appointees of the trump administration? have they had time to get those people in place.
brought in in five different locales, virginia, boston, los angeles and also in brooklyn. this is a fascinating human story already with the personnel that we ve just been talking about. but it s about to become that in miniature in all of those jurisdictions you just described. eric, thank you for joining us especially now, after midnight. really appreciate it, eric. thanks for having me. as i mentioned at the top of the show we have confirmed word that the president, in addition to replacing the to firing the acting attorney general and replacing her with the u.s. attorney who was previously serving in the eastern district of virginia, a man named dana bonte, in addition to that news the president has also replaced the act oog director of i.c.e. he is the head of immigrations and customs enforcement.