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Anyone in the private sector would be fired under similar conditions, except probably without an article in the NY times.

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Nonsense. Any lawyer fired for obeying an illegal order would end up pretty much owning the company that fired them. The duty of lawyers is to the law first, and their employer second. An EO is not a law.

This EO is certainly unpopular, but it is hardly clear (yet) that it's illegal. Even the NYT does not make that claim.

If a well known company fired a GC for not following a CEO order to do something illegal, the NYT would love to write about it.

Which is one of many reasons why we are not governed by the private sector.

Considering it is illegal for companies to do what Trump ordered[0], I'm not sure that would be the best analogy.

https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/nationalorigin.cfm

She was fired for outright refusing to do her job [1], encouraging her subordinates to the same, and for going public about it.

[1] "to prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme Court in which the United States shall be concerned"

No, her job is to help follow the laws of the country, not to do whatever the President says. The President is not a dictator or a CEO.

The president is a CEO. He is quite literally the chief officer of the executive branch.

Though he is a CEO of a public entity. Something I'm pretty sure he has no experience with.

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