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Jamie Raskin

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Jamie Raskin 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, Raskin has been an advocate for various progressive policies, including healthcare reform and civil rights. He gained national attention for his role in the impeachment proceedings against former President Donald Trump, where he served as a lead impeachment manager during the Senate trial in early 2020.

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Sep 18, 2023

Everybody should be able to afford the medical care and attention and prescription drugs that they need.

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Sep 18, 2023

We got to put the patients first.

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Sep 12, 2023

One of our colleagues, actually, several of our colleagues raised this issue, but one of them asked whether the Chinese government might have used intellectual property law or lawyers to achieve power over the U.S. Government and to…

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Sep 12, 2023

We do not believe that the talcum powder cases have merit. We believe that that is actually all driven by third-party litigation funding.

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Sep 12, 2023

I appreciate your candor in saying that that was not the case in the opioid litigation, or in the talcum powder case.

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Sep 12, 2023

There is no evidence that has turned up over the last 7 months that Joe Biden is guilty of any criminal wrongdoing

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Sep 11, 2023

There is no evidence of treason, bribery, or high crimes and misdemeanors. There's no evidence of any crime at all by Joe Biden.

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Sep 11, 2023

Well, it's ridiculous, of course. I mean, you've got people who voted not to impeach Donald Trump for inciting a violent insurrection against the Union either because they don't think that's a crime or because they don't think the evidence…

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Sep 11, 2023

This is a transparent effort to boost Donald Trump's campaign by establishing a false moral equivalency between Trump, the four-time indicted former president now facing 91 federal and state criminal charges based on a mountain of damning…

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Aug 5, 2023

He tried to steal the election away from us.

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Aug 5, 2023

He's calling them 'great patriots.' He's saying, 'Never forget this day.' He continues to laud them to this very day in saying that, when he gets back in, he's gonna pardon all of those people.

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Aug 5, 2023

This is a guy who wants to appoint himself completely immune from the rule of law that applies to the rest of us.

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Aug 5, 2023

He tried to steal the entire election. And his lawyer's up there saying, 'Oh, that's just a matter of him expressing his First Amendment rights.' That's deranged. That is a deranged argument.

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Aug 5, 2023

The Constitution, in six different places, opposes insurrection and makes that a grievous constitutional offense. Um so our Constitution is designed to stop people from trying to overthrow elections and trying to overthrow the government.

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Aug 5, 2023

President Trump tried to bully state-level officials to commit a fraud on the public by literally finding votes. We saw him trying to get state legislatures to disavow and overthrow their popular election results and replace them with…

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Jul 31, 2023

As voter fraud, what is the proper punishment for someone who tries to steal an entire presidential election from the people?

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Jul 31, 2023

This was a massive violation of the voting rights of the people.

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Jul 26, 2023

The fentanyl and opioid crisis is a nightmare for America, for our communities, and for our families.

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Jul 26, 2023

Twenty-thousand Mexicans were killed last year. They are killing thousands of people, these syndicates and these cartels, and they are getting their guns from America.

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Jul 26, 2023

The purpose of our government is laid out very clearly in the preamble of the Constitution: 'We the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the…

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Jul 26, 2023

Democrats and Republicans should work together to address the underlying causes of addiction in our society.

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Jul 26, 2023

Your religious free exercise rights don't give you the right to opt out of a generally applicable universal secular law.

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