January 02, 2018 02:17 PM UTC

Will You Take To The Streets If Trump Cans Mueller?

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• by: Colorado Pols

Ernest Luning writing for the former Colorado Statesman:

A coalition of groups organizing protests in the event President Donald Trump fires special counsel Robert Mueller has gathered thousands of pledges by individuals who say they’ll be ready to assemble on short notice at more than a dozen “Nobody is Above the Law” rallies across Colorado.

Groups have been preparing to mobilize nationwide protests and assembling participants since late summer but the number of people signing up has mushroomed in recent weeks, organizers said. The number of prospective protesters signed up for a Denver rally at the state Capitol, for instance, more than doubled from around 1,000 just before Christmas to more than 2,500 this week, said Katie F., a leader of the Indivisible Front Range Resistance and one of that event’s organizers…

By Saturday morning, RSVPs were being taken for protests in 15 locations in Colorado — Alamosa, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Cortez, Denver, Durango, Edwards, Fort Collins, Grand Junction, Gunnison, Lakewood, Longmont, Loveland, Pueblo, and Salida.

Signing up for an event with no certain date or even certainty of occurring at all might seem strange. But given the growing speculation over whether special counsel Robert Mueller will be permitted to complete his investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with the Russian government during the 2016 elections, there are lots of Americans who don’t want to be caught off-guard. The recent uptick in conservative media attacks on Mueller’s credibility has only increased the anticipation.

If constitutional crisis erupts, what will you do? Our advice is of course to keep it lawful, but that still gives Americans plenty of leeway to make a ruckus.