Letters: Rep. Emmer seems to have forgotten some basic civics lessons

I would like to remind U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minnesota, of some basic civics lessons that he seems to have forgotten recently.

The First Amendment of the Bills of Rights guarantees all Americans the right to protest and publicly assemble in peace. I feel it is my civic duty to speak up and stand up when the constitution of the U.S. is being violated daily. We are seeing consolidation of power under a president who overtly admires other authoritarian regimes. We object!

The founding fathers specifically created a mechanism of government that included checks and balances of power. Protesting the systematic destruction of those long-established checks and balances is to me an expression of my deep loyalty to the Constitution, not to one very partisan president who increasingly governs only