"She advocated very strongly as a one-woman show for law enforcement and made the Obama administration pause on policies she thought would be harmful," former Justice Department spokesperson Emily Pierce added. "Acting Attorney General Yates’s record is simply beyond reproach." "For nearly three decades, acting Attorney General Sally Yates has served presidents of both parties, defending the Constitution and holding terrorists and other criminals accountable,” former Labor Secretary Tom Perez told the Washington Post. She is known for standing by the law regardless of the sitting president's political party.ĭespite the Trump administration's insistence that Yates had "betrayed" them by refusing to protest the president's immigration ban, the former deputy attorney general has always had a reputation for standing her ground and sticking by the law, regardless of who's in office. "She set this goal of looking at every drug-clemency petition, and they accomplished that.” 7. "Sally deserves a lot of credit," former Attorney General Eric H. She oversaw former President Obama's clemency initiative.ĭuring his final days in office, former President Obama granted hundreds of commutations for nonviolent drug offenders, which first required the Justice Department to review thousands of clemency petitions in order to determine who they should recommend to the president. A confirmation vote for Trump’s nominee for the job, Senator Sessions, is expected Tuesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee.Getty Images 6. Yates’s appointment as acting attorney general would not have lasted much longer in any case. attorney in Virginia, whose first act was to rescind Yates’s order to the Justice Department. Late Monday, Yates was replaced in her acting position by Dana J. attorney general when Loretta Lynch resigned from the post on Inauguration Day. attorney general in January 2015 and the Senate confirmed her five months later. President Barack Obama nominated Yates to be deputy U.S. » Yates on her work: 'Worth every penny you don't make'
Later, Yates served as lead prosecutor in the case against Centennial Olympic Park bomber Eric Robert Rudolph. Among those she successfully prosecuted: former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell, former Fulton County Commission Chairman Mitch Skandalakis and former state school Superintendent Linda Schrenko. Attorney's Office here, Yates was promoted in 1994 to oversee fraud and public corruption prosecutions and oversaw a number of notable cases. Her father Kelley Quillian, served as a judge on the Georgia Court of Appeals until he retired in 1985. Yates, 56, grew up in Atlanta and received her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Georgia. » Yates for governor? Georgia Democrats already talking "Buddy" Fowlkes and former Aviation Commissioner Ira Jackson. After a lengthy investigation and trial, Yates obtained convictions against a number of city officials, including former City Councilman D.L. Yates made a name for herself as a prosecutor in the early 1990s when she shook up City Hall by indicting a number of high-profile defendants in an airport corruption and bribery scandal.
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