From To: Subject: FW: VANITY FAIR; I 'OULD BE RIDICULOUSLY NAIVE NOT TO BE CONCERNED": TRUMP HAS POLITICIZED THE DOJ. HOW LONG CAN THE SDNY HOLD OUT? Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 16:21:51 +0000 Importance: Normal From: Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 11:46 AM To: Cc: (USANYS) (USANYS). > Subject: VANITY FAIR; "IT WOULD BE RIDICULOUSLY NAIVE NOT TO BE CONCERNED": TRUMP HAS POLITICIZED THE Dal. HOW LONG CAN THE SDNY HOLD OUT? LINK TO ARTICLE: https://www.vanityfaincominews/2019/07/trump-has-politicized-the-doj-how-long-can-the-sdny- hold-out "IT WOULD BE RIDICULOUSLY NAIVE NOT TO BE CONCERNED": TRUMP HAS POLITICIZED THE DOJ. HOW LONG CAN THE SDNY HOLD OUT? The battles over the border and the census show that the West Wing is fully in control of Justice. "The fear is that Trump doesn't even need to say it out loud anymore." BY CHRIS SMITH Sally Yates tried to warn us. Way back in January 2O17, at the end of the very first week of the Trump administration, the new president signed an executive order banning refugees and immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States. It was a blatantly political act, following months of Trump campaign promises, and it immediately provoked lawsuits challenging the order as religious discrimination. Yates, the acting attorney general, refused to defend the legally indefensible and was summarily fired. "The president is attempting to dismantle the rule of law, destroy the time-honored independence of the Justice Department, and undermine the career men EFTA00095987