Jamin “Jamie” Raskin, 61, is an attorney, law professor, and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Maryland’s 8th congressional district since 2017. Raskin, co-chair of the Congressional Freethought Caucus, was the lead impeachment manager (prosecutor) for the second impeachment of President Donald Trump in response to the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Before his election to Congress, Raskin was a constitutional law professor at American University Washington College of Law, where he co-founded and directed the LL.M. program on law and government and co-founded the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project.
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Quote: “On New Year’s Eve 2020, Jamie Raskin’s son Tommy, 25, died by suicide after years of fighting mental illness. Then, on Jan. 6, 2021, just a day after Tommy’s funeral, Raskin was at work in the U.S. Capitol with his daughter and son-in-law when a violent mob stormed the building in an attempt to overturn the results of the presidential election.
‘I was forced to galvanize all of my love for Tommy and my daughters, Hannah and Tabitha, and my wife, Sarah, and our family and our country, and to throw myself into the trial to make the case that Donald Trump had incited this violent insurrection in an effort to overthrow the 2020 presidential election,’ Raskin says.
‘I personally felt no fear, because the very worst thing that ever could have happened to me had already happened to me,” he says. “And so my feeling to the people who want to take down our democracy is that they’re not going to scare me out of doing my job.’ ”
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