A few dozen people chanted and waved signs in Augusta and North Augusta to protest President Trump's decision to force the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

"This country is in a serious situation," said Gloria Greenbaum, one of about a dozen who attended a rally at the Augusta Judicial Center.

"The president just decides who's going to be the new attorney general, who sides with him?" she said. "He fired Jeff Sessions and just appointed who he wants. It's so obvious that man will do what he tells him to do."

After Trump asked Sessions to resign, he named Sessions' chief of staff, Matthew Whitaker, as acting attorney general. Whitaker has questioned the direction of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, from which Sessions recused himself, angering the president.

"I'm saddened that our president can choose what information gets to be investigated," said Julie Coats, who participated in the rally. "I'm just hoping for justice and an equal voice."

"Even second graders say nobody is above the law," said Shirley Hao, who immigrated to the United States in second grade. "That's what makes America great is that nobody is above the law. The president right now is going unchecked."

The event was one of hundreds planned nationwide by MoveOn to activate when Trump "crossed a red line" such as firing Sessions.

"Trump has undercut the independence of the investigation. Whitaker has publicly outlined strategies to stifle the investigation, referred to Mueller's team as a 'lynch mob' and cannot be allowed to remain in charge of it," MoveOn said in a statement.