Raskin ran for the Maryland state senate in 2006. I go all the way back to the Eisenhower administration and I don’t cry a lot but his final presentation that first day when he made it so personal and so poignant moved me to tears.” Lichtman described Raskin’s showing as lead impeachment manager as “incredible”, admitting: “I’m an old curmudgeon.
I didn’t necessarily expect him to take the political route but he certainly has been incredibly successful at it.”
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All those years studying and lecturing are paying off at the trial – if not in the minds of Republican senators, then at least in the writings of future historians.Ĭongressman Raskin breaks down recounting Capitol breach – videoĪllan Lichtman, a friend and colleague at the university, said: “Twenty-five years ago, I just presumed he would continue his academic career. Raskin was a professor of constitutional law at American University’s Washington College of Law for more than a quarter of a century. “But for his awareness of that, I think he would be spending more time with his family because they’re still in mourning.” ‘The political route’ “He is fully aware of the enormous historical import of this trial and the weight he carries on his shoulders and he’s carried it with grace,” Tribe said. Tribe remains in touch with Raskin, who told him he feels his late son is “with him” during this effort. I’ve taught quite a few impressive people, like President Obama and Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kagan, and he is right at the top of the students that I feel very proud to have played at least some small role in educating.” 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.”
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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.
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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. “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.
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