We are living through the most dangerous challenge to the free government of the United States that anyone alive has encountered,” David Frum declares in the new edition of the Atlantic.
The fallout from Donald Trump’s executive order banning citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States and indefinitely banning Syrian refugees from coming to America for an indefinite period continues to rumble on. Overnight, Sally Yates, the acting attorney general, has been sacked after instructing lawyers at the Department of Justice not to defend his executive order, as in her view, the order is unconstitutional.
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