![]() As the lead impeachment manager he couldn’t possibly have done a better job. “The courage that he has shown in the face of unthinkable personal tragedy has been something to behold. The courage that he has shown in the face of unthinkable personal tragedy has been something to behold Laurence Tribe “He is one of the most impressive students that I have ever come to know and is also an extremely impressive human being,” he said. Tribe recalls that Raskin and his wife, Sarah, met in his class on the constitution. Raskin graduated from Georgetown day school in 1979 then studied at Harvard and its law school, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and his teachers included Professor Laurence Tribe. His mother, Barbara Bellman, was a journalist and novelist. ![]() His father, Marcus Raskin, was a young aide in John F Kennedy’s White House, a fierce activist against the Vietnam war and co-founder of the progressive thinktank the Institute for Policy Studies. “Maybe that has helped him to cope with the loss but I think the concern for those of us that are friends with Jamie is that, when this is all over, there could be a pretty hard fall back to grief and he’s going to need a lot of support.” Jared Huffman, a co-founder with Raskin of the Congressional Freethought Caucus, said: “Who knew that almost immediately after that tragic day he would get this assignment and pretty quickly begin working full time on something of such historic importance? In a trial focused on the excesses of a would-be strongman, Raskin’s very human displays of vulnerability have the quality of redemption. “They thought they were going to die,” he said, his voice cracking as he recalled apologising to Tabitha, 23, for putting her in danger. Raskin, 58, also told how his daughter Tabitha and son-in-law Hank accompanied him to the Capitol that day – and had to hide under a desk. ![]() Tommy was buried on 5 January – the day before a violent mob mounted a deadly insurrection at the US Capitol. They were doubly awed when he wove together the political and the personal to share unfathomable grief: his 25-year-old son, Tommy, killed himself on New Year’s Eve after years of struggle with depression. Senators, pundits and millions of TV viewers have heard his deceptively soothing tones eviscerate the former president. Just four years later, the proud progressive finds himself lead prosecutor in the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump. He had only taken office himself in January 2017, representing Maryland’s eighth congressional district. We hope you will join us! If you have any questions, please email us at Ĭo-sponsored by The Institute for Policy Studies.“Straight white men are already a minority in the Democratic caucus but when the big blue wave hits, we’re going to be moving much closer to parity in terms of women and men, at least on the House side,” he said, a prediction that came true a month later in the midterm elections. All proceeds directly support The Nation’s journalism. Join the conversation! There will be ample time devoted to audience questions and engagement. Raskin will be joining The Nation’s Editorial Director and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel and The Nation’s chief political correspondent John Nichols to talk about his book, the upcoming hearing and his priorities for 2022 in a wide-ranging discussion. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list, and in March, Raskin will be helping lead nationally televised, prime-time hearings into the January 6 insurrection-in a moment with historic echoes of the Watergate scandal. But, in 2022, the three-term congressman has a new book that is currently No. Not long ago, Raskin was largely unknown to voters outside of his suburban Maryland congressional district. A former Constitutional law scholar, Raskin’s heroism at the center of the January 6 insurrection and brilliance in prosecuting President Trump in his second impeachment trial inspired a nation. Representative Jamie Raskin: ‘It Was a Scene of Absolute Terror and Mayhem’Ĭongressman Jamie Raskin is one of the most engaged and effective proponents of real Democracy in Congress today. ![]()
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