Multiple legal experts have criticized former acting Attorney General Sally Yates for allowing her personal views of President Trump’s executive order on refugees and travel to the United States to interfere with the Justice Department’s role of defending what is lawful.

Jack Goldsmith at Lawfare granted that Yates was “obviously in an extraordinarily difficult position” given her inherent differences with the administration, but those were not an excuse to insert the DOJ into judging the merit of a particular policy.