Jamie Raskin

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Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2023
Children3 [note 1]
Parents
Education Harvard University (BA, JD)
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Jamie Raskin speaks on debate rules for the day's legislative calendar
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Jamin Ben "Jamie" Raskin (born December 13, 1962) is an American attorney, law professor, and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Maryland State Senate from 2007 to 2016. [2] The district previously included portions of Montgomery County, a suburban county northwest of Washington, D.C., and extended through rural Frederick County to the Pennsylvania border. Since redistricting in 2022, Raskin's district now encompasses only part of Montgomery County.

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Raskin co-chairs the Congressional Freethought Caucus. He was the lead impeachment manager for the second impeachment of President Donald Trump in response to the attack on the U.S. Capitol. [3] [4] 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. [5] [6]

Early life and education

Jamin Ben Raskin [2] was born in Washington, D.C., on December 13, 1962, [7] to Jewish parents Barbara (née Bellman) Raskin and Marcus Raskin. His name is a variant of that of his paternal grandfather, Benjamin Raskin. [8] His mother was a journalist and novelist, [9] and his father was a former staff aide to President John F. Kennedy on the National Security Council, co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies, and a progressive activist. [10] [11] Raskin's ancestors immigrated to the U.S. from Russia. [12]

Raskin graduated from Georgetown Day School in 1979 at age 16, and then magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts in government with a concentration in political theory. In 1987, he received a J.D. degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review . [13]

For more than 25 years, Raskin was a constitutional law professor at the American University Washington College of Law, [14] where he taught future fellow impeachment manager Stacey Plaskett. [15] He co-founded and directed the LL.M. program on law and government and co-founded the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project. [5] [6]

From 1989 to 1990, Raskin served as general counsel for Jesse Jackson's National Rainbow Coalition. [16] In 1996, he represented Ross Perot regarding Perot's exclusion from the 1996 United States presidential debates. Raskin wrote a Washington Post op-ed that strongly condemned the Federal Election Commission and the Commission on Presidential Debates for their decisions. [17]

Political career

In 1999, Maryland Governor Parris Glendening appointed Raskin as the first chairman of the Maryland State Higher Education Labor Relations Board. He later served as Doug Gansler's campaign manager in the 2006 Maryland Attorney General election. [18]

Maryland legislature

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Raskin speaks at a press conference on the repeal of the death penalty in Maryland, 2013

Raskin was elected to the Maryland Senate in 2006 after defeating incumbent state senator Ida G. Ruben in the Democratic primary election, in which he ran to the left of Ruben, and ran unopposed in the general election. [19] [20] He represented District 20, which included parts of Silver Spring and Takoma Park in Montgomery County. In 2012, Raskin was named Senate majority whip and chaired the Montgomery County Senate Delegation and the Select Committee on Ethics Reform, and was a member of the Judicial Proceedings Committee. [11]

Raskin described himself as a "hands-on progressive" while in the legislature, [18] sponsoring bills advocating the repeal of the death penalty in Maryland, the expansion of the state ignition interlock device program, and the establishment of the legal guidelines for benefit corporations, a type of for-profit corporation that includes a material societal benefit in its bylaws and decision-making processes. [21] [22] [23] [24] A former board member of FairVote, he introduced and sponsored the first bill in the country for the National Popular Vote, a plan for an interstate compact to provide for presidential election by popular vote. [25] Raskin long championed efforts to reform marijuana laws and legalize medical marijuana in Maryland. [26] [27] He introduced a medical marijuana bill in 2014 that was signed by Governor Martin O'Malley and went into effect in January 2015. [28]

Raskin helped lead the fight to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland. [29] On March 1, 2006, during a Maryland State Senate hearing on same-sex marriage, Raskin was noted for his response to an opposing lawmaker: "Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible." [30] [31] [32] [33]

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

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Raskin campaigning in 2016 with Senator Elizabeth Warren

On April 19, 2015, The Baltimore Sun and The Washington Post reported that Raskin announced his campaign for Congress and said, in response to observations that his positions were notably left-of-center, "My ambition is not to be in the political center, it is to be in the moral center." The district's seven-term incumbent, Chris Van Hollen, gave up the seat to run for the United States Senate. [34] [35]

During the primary, Raskin was endorsed by the Progressive Action PAC, the political arm of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which grew from 72 members at the time of the endorsement to 92 members in early 2020. [36] Raskin won the seven-way Democratic primary—the real contest in this heavily Democratic district—with 33% of the vote. [37] He was viewed as the most liberal candidate in the race. [29] The primary election was the most expensive House race in 2016, and Raskin was heavily outspent. [38]

During the general election, Raskin was endorsed by the Bernie Sanders-affiliated political organizing network Our Revolution, [39] and the community organizing effort People's Action. [40] He defeated Republican nominee Dan Cox with 60% of the vote. [41]

Tenure

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Raskin speaking at the 2020 AFGE Legislative Conference

As one of his first actions in Congress, Raskin and several other members of the House objected to the certification of the 2016 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump due to alleged ties with Russia, and Russia's interference in the 2016 election, as well as voter suppression efforts. Then-Vice President Joe Biden ruled their objection out of order because it had to be sponsored by at least one member of each chamber, and it had no Senate sponsor. [42] Raskin questioned the legitimacy of the election, claiming it was "badly tainted by everything from cyber-sabotage by Vladimir Putin, to deliberate voter suppression by Republicans in numerous swing states". [43] In late June 2017, Raskin was the chief sponsor of legislation to establish a congressional "oversight" commission which would be tasked with determining whether the president was unfit, physically or mentally, to perform his duties. The commission's evaluation could support removing the president from office under the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. [44] [45]

In April 2018, Raskin, Jared Huffman, Jerry McNerney, and Dan Kildee launched the Congressional Freethought Caucus. Its stated goals include "pushing public policy formed on the basis of reason, science, and moral values", promoting the "separation of church and state", and opposing discrimination against "atheists, agnostics, humanists, seekers, religious, and nonreligious persons". [46] Huffman and Raskin are co-chairs. [4]

Raskin supports banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. In 2019, he voted in favor of the Equality Act and urged Congress members to do the same. [47] [48]

On January 12, 2021, Raskin was named the lead impeachment manager for the Senate impeachment trial held after Trump's second impeachment. [49] He was the primary author of the impeachment article, along with Representatives David Cicilline and Ted Lieu, which charged Trump with inciting an insurrection on the United States Capitol. During the Senate trial, Raskin recounted that after being there on January 6 as the mob was forcibly entering, his daughter said to him, "Dad, I don't want to come back to the Capitol". [50]

In February 2022, while his wife was under consideration for a position as the Federal Reserve's vice chair of supervision, it was reported that Raskin violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act by failing to properly disclose her share dealings. One instance was when his wife received stock for advising a Colorado-based financial technology trust company, and the other was when she sold stock in Reserve Trust for $1.5 million, but the sale was not disclosed for eight months. His wife had sat on the advisory board of the Federal Reserve when it "granted Reserve Trust unusual access to its master account", but it is not clear when she first acquired the shares. [51]

On November 17, 2023, Raskin called for a humanitarian pause in the Israel–Hamas war or a "mutually agreed-upon cease-fire" that would "provide for a ‘global humanitarian surge’ of aid to hundreds of thousands of displaced and suffering innocent civilians throughout Gaza." [52]

Syria

In 2023, Raskin voted against H.Con.Res. 21, which directed President Joe Biden to remove U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days. [53] [54]

Investigation into the January 6 attack on the Capitol

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Raskin with Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn

On July 1, 2021, Raskin was one of seven Democrats appointed to the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. [55] Following the announcement, Raskin said, "As Chair of the Oversight Committee's Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee, I've helped lead the Oversight Committee's painstaking investigation into violent white supremacy over the last two years. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has declared domestic violent extremism the number one security threat in the country. We saw that threat explode right in front of our eyes at the Capitol on January 6." [56]

On July 12, 2022, Raskin co-led the Select Committee's seventh public hearing with Representative Stephanie Murphy. The hearing focused on the role the far-right extremist groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers played in organizing the attack. It also discussed the importance of Trump's December 19 tweet "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!" and how it spread to his supporters. To show the impact, the committee played recordings of its interview with an anonymous Twitter employee who worked from 2020 to 2021 and was on the team responsible for the platform's content moderation policies. During the interview, they said that the tweet served as a "call to action, and in some cases as a call to arms" to his supporters. [57]

According to his closing statement of the July 12 hearing, Raskin opened by emphasizing the importance of the December 19 tweet: "When Donald Trump sent out his tweet, he became the first president ever to call for a crowd to descend on the capital city to block the constitutional transfer of power." He later summarized the second focus of the hearing: "On January 6, Trump knew the crowd was angry. He knew the crowd was armed. He sent them to the Capitol anyway." Raskin concluded his statement, "We need to defend both our democracy and our freedom with everything we have and declare that this American carnage ends here and now. In a world of resurgent authoritarianism and racism and antisemitism, let’s all hang tough for American democracy." [58] [59]

Committee assignments

  • Committee on Oversight and Accountability (Ranking Member)
    • As Ranking Member of the Committee, Rep. Raskin is entitled to sit as an ex officio member in all subcommittee meetings, per the committee's rules.

Party leadership and caucus membership

Electoral history

2016

Democratic primary, Congress, Maryland 8th district, 2016 [37]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Jamie Raskin 43,776 33.6%
Democratic David Trone 35,40027.1%
Democratic Kathleen Matthews 31,18623.9%
Democratic Ana Sol Gutierrez 7,1855.5%
Democratic Will Jawando 6,0584.6%
Democratic Kumar P. Barve 3,1492.4%
Democratic David M. Anderson1,5111.2%
Democratic Joel Rubin 1,4261.1%
Democratic Dan Bolling7120.5%
Majority8,3766.5%
Total votes130,403 100.0%
Congress, Maryland 8th district, 2016 [41]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Jamie Raskin 220,657 60.6% −0.3
Republican Dan Cox 124,65134.2%−5.5
Green Nancy Wallace11,2013.1%+3.1
Libertarian Jasen Wunder7,2832.0%+2.0
Write-ins5320.1%−0.1
Majority96,00626.4%+4.7
Total votes364,324 100.0%

2018

Democratic primary, Congress, Maryland 8th district, 2018
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Jamie Raskin 74,303 90.5%
Democratic Summer Spring4,7595.80%
Democratic Utam Paul3,0323.70%
Majority69,54484.70%
Total votes82,094 100.0%
Congress, Maryland 8th district, 2018
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Jamie Raskin 217,679 68.2% +7.6
Republican John Walsh96,52530.2%−4.0
Libertarian Jasen Wunder4,8531.5%−0.5
Write-ins2730.1%−
Majority121,15437.9%+11.5
Total votes319,330 100.0%

2020

Democratic primary, Congress, Maryland 8th district, 2020
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Jamie Raskin 97,087 86.6
Democratic Marcia H. Morgan9,1608.2
Democratic Lih Young4,2613.8
Democratic Utam Paul1,6511.5
Total votes112,159 100.0%
Congress, Maryland 8th district, 2020
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Jamie Raskin 274,716 68.2% +0.1
Republican Gregory Coll127,15731.6%+1.4
Write-ins7410.2%+0.1
Majority147,55936.7%−1.3
Total votes402,614 100.0%

2022

Democratic primary, Congress, Maryland 8th district, 2022
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Jamie Raskin 29,500 93.6
Democratic Andalib Odulaye2,0526.4%
Congress, Maryland 8th district, 2022
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Jamie Raskin 189,449 79.6%
Republican Gregory Coll44,85418.8%
Libertarian Andrés Garcia3,7121.6%

Personal life

Raskin is married to Sarah Bloom Raskin, who served as the Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation from 2007 to 2010. They live in Takoma Park, Maryland. [68] President Barack Obama nominated Bloom Raskin to the Federal Reserve Board on April 28, 2010. [69] On October 4, 2010, she was sworn in as a governor of the Federal Reserve Board by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. [70] President Joe Biden nominated her for chair of the Federal Reserve Board, but Republicans boycotted her committee hearing and Joe Manchin opposed her because of her views on the use of monetary policy to address climate change. Given that stalemate, she withdrew her nomination. [71] She served as the United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury from March 19, 2014, to January 20, 2017. [72]

The Raskins have two daughters, Hannah and Tabitha, and had a son named Tommy. On December 31, 2020, Raskin's office announced that his son Tommy, a graduate of Montgomery Blair High School, a graduate of Amherst College, and a second-year student at Harvard Law School, had died at the age of 25. [73] On January 4, 2021, Raskin and his wife posted a tribute to their son online that stated that, after a prolonged battle with depression, he had died by suicide. [74] [75] In a farewell note, Tommy said, "Please forgive me. My illness won today. Look after each other, the animals and the global poor. All my love, Tommy." [76] Tommy was buried on January 5, 2021. The next day, Raskin was in the Capitol with his daughter and son-in-law during the January 6 Capitol attack. [77] [78] Hours later, he began drafting an article of impeachment against President Trump, and six days later, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi named Raskin the lead manager of Trump's second impeachment. [79] [80] His 2022 book Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy focuses on his son's life and his preparation for the impeachment trial. [81] He was also the subject of a MSNBC documentary film titled "Love & The Constitution", which covered his first three years in Congress and his fight to uphold the constitution during Trump's presidency. The film also captured the loss of his son and Raskin’s appointment as lead impeachment manager in Trump's second impeachment trial. [82]

Raskin has been vegetarian since 2009. [83]

Health

In May 2010, Raskin was diagnosed with colon cancer. He received six weeks of radiation and chemotherapy, and surgery to remove part of his colon, followed by more chemotherapy through early 2011. [84]

In December 2022, Raskin announced that he had been diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, and said he would undergo chemoimmunotherapy, [85] [86] which he completed in April 2023. [87] On April 27, he said the cancer was in remission. [88]

Publications

Notes

    1. ↑ One child is deceased. [1]

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