Mark Gruenberg and and John Wojcik
08/07/23
(People’s World) Public Citizen organized the conference and the demonstrations, which assembled the Our Freedoms, Our Votes coalition.
“Donald Trump unleashed an attack on American democracy, with insurrectionists and the 147 [congressional] Republicans as his co-conspirators,” declared Rushad Thomas, legislative director for End Citizens United, referring to the lawmakers who stuck with Trump in refusing to certify Joe Biden’s election to the White House—even after the Trumpite hordes had invaded.
“No one is above the law,” Thomas said, in a theme all the speakers repeated.