Sally Yates gets a standing O before a partisan hometown crowd
Sally Yates appeared briefly before a hometown crowd Wednesday — one of her first forays in public since President Donald Trump fired her as acting attorney general for defying his immigration order.
Yates, entering a Carter Center event with former Attorney General Eric Holder, received a standing ovation just for showing up. She is celebrated by the left, which asserts that she was standing on principle when she instructed the Justice Department not to enforce Trump's executive order, and vilified by the right, which asserts that she was just grandstanding.
Yates took a seat in the audience and listened to a panel discussion on race, of which Holder was a part. When a member of the audience asked whether she planned to run for office, she replied quietly, "I am just here in the audience."
Later, Holder saw fit to yell, “Holder/Yates: 2020!”
Someone yelled back, “Yates/Holder!”
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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.
