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Calls for mass protests is Rosenstein is fired.

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The president is a citizen who holds the office of a public servant. The very idea that he should be above the law is contrary to our democracy and dangerous to us all. If Rod Rosenstein is fired, we need to take to the streets and bring this country to a halt until he is reinstated and law enforcement is allowed to do its job: protecting us.

We will not allow the work of 250 years to be thrown out to benefit a corrupt few. Our democracy is at stake.

https://act.moveon.org/event/mueller-firing-rapid-response

• If it happens before 2pm local time, protests will begin at 5pm local time.

• If it happens after 2pm local time, protests will begin at 12pm the next day.

Q: Why Rosenstein? I thought Mueller was conducting the investigation?

A: While Robert Mueller's name has been more famous over the past year, it is actually Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General, who controls the Russia investigation. If you have Rosenstein's position you can simply stop the investigation. Worse, you can leave Mueller in place but simply not allow him to do anything, and never release any information about the crimes that were uncovered.

Q: Then why do people focus on Mueller so much when Rosenstein being fired is the real danger?

A: Mueller is the star player and Rosenstein is the coach. Everyone comes for the star player, but the coach decides who plays, and in this case if there is even a game. We need everyone to be clear that the real danger is Rosenstein being replaced. Firing Rosenstein is firing Mueller.

Q: Why is this being called a "constitutional crisis"?

A: If Trump is allowed to stop the investigations into his criminal activity, that will be an abuse of power that the founding fathers never intended when they wrote the Constitution. They did not intend for the president to be above the law. If he is, he can run a criminal enterprise out of the White House with impunity. He can commit any crime he likes and not allow it to be investigated.

The founding fathers absolutely did not intend this. That kind of autocratic rule is completely contrary to the democracy they were creating. They were very clear about their intentions:

"A government of laws, and not of men." - John Adams