When newly sworn-in President Donald Trump fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yates last night after she flat-out refused to defend his controversial order on immigration, it was bad news for those craving a bit more stability — but good news for any Billiken looking to see their alma mater in the spotlight.
That's because Yates' replacement, the country's newest Acting Attorney General (and why do we have the hunch there could be quite a few of those?), is a graduate of Saint Louis University, three times over.
Dana J. Boente is a native of Carlinville, Illinois, who apparently notched his B.A., M.B.A. and J.D. from SLU. After that, in 1982, he clerked for Judge J. Waldo Ackerman in the Central District of Illinois before signing on with the Department of Justice.…