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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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Oct 12, 2022

Nothing in law or fact could justify the President's failure to act.

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Oct 12, 2022

Trump was telling us that the Vice President, the Congress, and all the injured and wounded cops... got what was coming to us.

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Oct 12, 2022

The impact of that tweet was foreseeable and predictable.

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Oct 12, 2022

Not just Democrats like Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, but Republicans like Vice President Pence, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Majority Whip John Thune, and countless other appointees across the…

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Oct 12, 2022

As the President watched the bloody attack unfold on Fox News from his dining room, Members of Congress and other Government officials stepped in to the gigantic leadership void created by the President's chilling and studied passivity…

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Oct 12, 2022

The President was still exhorting his supporters at the Ellipse to go 'fight like hell' at 12:50.

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Oct 12, 2022

American democracy belongs to all the American people, not to a single man.

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Oct 12, 2022

Our Constitution strongly opposes insurrection and rebellion.

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Sep 30, 2022

This was our democracy. This was our government that was under attack. Donald Trump tried to overthrow the election of the people.

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Sep 30, 2022

Look, people have a right to challenge the results of elections. And the way they do it is they go to court.

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Sep 30, 2022

It is amazing that you have someone who`s married to a Supreme Court justice, who is -- you know, continues to promote the big lie.

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Sep 30, 2022

The rule of law is an edifice that is populated by real human beings. And so, the character of our judges and the character of the people who get involved in every level of government, local, county, state, federal, is of essential…

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Sep 28, 2022

The necessary implication is the position that the anti-abortion movement has taken aggressively for decades, which is that there should be a total ban on abortion rights in America without any exception for rape or incest.

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Sep 28, 2022

So essentially these state legislators and all the busybody theocrats in Congress who think they know better than the women of America are going to usurp that very private medical decision for women and for their families.

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Sep 28, 2022

Since 2021, Republicans in Congress have introduced 52 bills to ban or restrict abortion nationwide.

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Sep 28, 2022

But don't be deceived by their newfound silence and evasiveness.

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Sep 28, 2022

Now they've grown a little more reticent and evasive about voicing their determination to ban all abortions everywhere in the country since the people of Kansas, by 20 points, massively repudiated the dangerous extremism of the Republican…

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Sep 26, 2022

America listened to it, because we had real congressional hearings, and 25, 30 million Americans watching because we told the truth about Donald Trump`s assault on democratic institutions and the right to vote in America.

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Sep 26, 2022

I can’t say anything specific about that particular call, but we are aware of it and we are aware of lots of contacts between people in the White House and different people that were involved, obviously, in the coup attempt and the…

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Sep 26, 2022

You pulled the plug on the investigation you originally advocated, because Donald Trump didn`t want it. Let`s tell some truth.

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Sep 26, 2022

Members of domestic violence extremist groups created an alliance both online and in person to coordinate a massive effort to storm, invade, and occupy the Capitol. By placing a target on the joint session of Congress, Trump had mobilized…

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Sep 26, 2022

It was vetoed by the cult leader Donald Trump who said he wanted no investigation at all.

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Sep 25, 2022

I can`t say anything specific about that particular call, but we are aware of it. And we are aware of lots of contracts between people in the White House and different people that were involved, obviously, in the coup attempt and the…

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Sep 24, 2022

This was an organized, pre-meditated, deliberate hit against the Vice President and the Congress to overthrow the 2020 presidential election.

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Sep 24, 2022

A former president in America is just a citizen.

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