Four indictments including the charge of racketeering! No voter should ever support Donald Trump

Echo opinion letter published in The New York Times:

The Fulton County's grand jury’s RICO (racketeering) indictment is historic because it rightly accuses the former president and his co-conspirators of a gang-like assault on democracy. 

Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis charged former President Donald J. Trump as part of a “criminal enterprise” seeking to overturn the Georgia election results. Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Moreover, the indictment is significant because it recognizes the courageous refusal of state officeholders, mostly Republican, to violate the law.

Just as important, though, is that this is all happening in Georgia — a state with a storied history about the right to vote, where Donald Trump and Rudolph Giuliani falsely accused honest, patriotic Black women poll workers of manipulating ballots, and where a brave, smart Black female district attorney is standing up for the rule of law.

Georgia poll workers Shaye Moss, Ruby Freeman

This is not the first or only time that Americans owe a huge debt of gratitude to our Black women compatriots.

From Jan H. Kalicki in Alexandria, Va.
The writer is a public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center.