Dana Boente, who in January replaced Sally Yates as acting attorney general amid a standoff over an executive order, has now been appointed as acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s National Security Division.
Yates took over as acting attorney general at the start of the Trump administration, but the president fired her on Jan. 30 after she refused to enforce his initial travel ban.
A White House press release stated that Yates “betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States.”
