6 insurrection and push against the idea of authoritarianism and instead work to defend democracy. Raskin called on the American people to take lessons learned after the Jan. 6 attack, including one officer who was permanently injured and has to leave his career in law enforcement because of it. House Representative Jamie Raskin accepts a lifetime achievement award from the Digestive Disease National Coalition (DDNC) in March 2020 at the 30th Annual. Its been a tough time in Washington for the last couple years, and. 6 attack presented its findings to the public. Raskin said more than 150 police officers were bloodied, injured and wounded in the Jan. Jamie Raskins answer to the rough political climate is a little summer schooling. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., spoke on July 12 as the House committee investigating the Jan. You might imagine that our founders would have been shocked to learn that an American president would one day come to embrace and excuse political violence against our own institutions, or knowingly sent an armed mob to attack the capital to usurp the will of the people,” Raskin said. “On January 6th, Trump knew the crowd was angry. Not by name, of course, but in the course of advising about the certain prospect that ambitious politicians would try to mobilize violent mobs to tear down our own institutions in service of their insatiable ambitions.” Raskin invoked the Founding Fathers in his closing statement, saying that at the start of the Republic, “They actually warned everyone about Donald Trump.
The focus of the hearing was on extremist far-right groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers and the role they played in the Jan.
gave a closing statement on July 12 as the House committee investigating the Jan. He authored several books, including the Washington Post best-seller Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court versus the American People and the highly-acclaimed We the Students: Supreme Court Cases For and About America’s Students, which has sold more than 50,000 copies.Ĭongressman Raskin is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.Rep. He was also a professor of constitutional law at American University’s Washington College of Law for more than 25 years.
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He earned a reputation for building coalitions in Annapolis to deliver a series of landmark legislative accomplishments. Prior to his time in Congress, Raskin was a three-term State Senator in Maryland, where he also served as the Senate Majority Whip. He was also renamed Chair of the Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and Chair of the Rules Subcommittee on Expedited Procedures for the 117th Congress. This is his second term serving on the Rules Committee and the Coronavirus Select Subcommittee. Raskin’s third term serving on the House Judiciary Committee, the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and the Committee on House Administration. Congressman Raskin was sworn into his third Term at the start of the 117th Congress on January 3, 2021. The district includes Montgomery, Carroll, and Frederick Counties. Congressman Jamie Raskin proudly represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S.