With an inside account of leading the team prosecuting President Trump in the Senate, Congressman Raskin shares never before told stories of just how close we came to losing our democracy that fateful day and lays out the methodical prosecution that convinced Democrats and Republicans alike of Trump’s responsibility for inciting insurrectionary violence against our government. And yet, on January 6, he faced the one thing he had failed to anticipate: mass political violence designed to block Biden’s election. Now for the first time, Congressman Raskin discusses this unimaginable convergence of personal and public trauma, detailing how the painful loss of his son and the power of Tommy’s convictions fueled the Congressman’s work in the aftermath of modern democracy’s darkest day. Going inside Congress on January 6, he recounts the horror of that day, a day that he and other Democrats had spent months preparing for under the correct assumption that they would encounter an attempted electoral coup-not against a President but for one. Together this nine-member team of House impeachment managers riveted a nation still in anguish, putting on an unprecedented Senate trial that produced the most bipartisan Presidential impeachment vote in American history. As our reeling nation mourned the deaths of numerous people and lamented the injuries of more than 140 police officers hurt in the attack, Congressman Raskin, a Constitutional law professor, was called upon to put aside his overwhelming grief-both personal and professional-and lead the impeachment effort against President Trump for inciting the violence. Capitol hoping to hand four more years of power to President Donald Trump. On December 31, 2020, Tommy Raskin, the only son of Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, tragically took his own life after a long struggle with depression. Seven days later on January 6, Congressman Raskin returned to Congress to help certify the 2020 Presidential election results, when violent insurrectionists led by right wing extremist groups stormed the U.S. "People place their hand on the Bible and swear to uphold the Constitution they don't put their hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible."įor more than 25 years, Congressman Raskin has been a professor of constitutional law at American University’s Washington College of Law.In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life-and his family’s-as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation’s Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence. Has received 100% rating from Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
“I will never back down from a fight to protect the rights of women to make their own healthcare decisions and will work to block efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and access to birth control.”.Believes that the United States must stand strong for a secure and inviolable Israel that protects constitutional democracy and civil rights for its people.A strong supporter of the State of Israel and will work in Congress to guarantee its continued security, defense and success.House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.Majority Whip for Senate, Chairman of the Montgomery County Senate Delegation (2012).Maryland State Senator District 20 (2006).EDUCATION: Harvard College 1983, Harvard Law School 1987
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