Jamie Raskin

I think that there`s a rapid flight away from Donald Trump. I think most people can read the writing on the wall that he`s going to end up isolated and shamed.

I want to go right to that point you were making before. If you go to the Elections Clause, it is set up, it seems purposefully, to create Congress as a backstop for the State legislatures, to make sure that Congress could regulate time…

They say that when we argue for removing weapons of war from the streets of America, we’re actually telling them to repeal the Second Amendment. Mr. Chairman, we are not telling them to repeal the Second Amendment. We are telling them to…

The reading is absurd and flies in the face of the plain text of the Constitution, which in at least seven different places that I count clearly forbids and punishes armed resistance against the U.S. Government.

This so-called insurrectionary theory of the Second Amendment maintains that its purpose is to allow citizens to wage armed resistance if they think the government is being unfair or unjust.

We experienced the worst domestic insurrection against our government since the Civil War.

Americans killing Americans--that is a good description of what is taking place with gun violence today.

Now, amazingly, in the wake of this savage insurrectionary attack against our government, the NRA and its followers in Congress continue to propound the idea that the Constitution, specifically the Second Amendment, gives people the right…

In his important testimony today, Mr. Busse referenced the bloody violence that we experienced on January 6, 2021...

The Second Amendment does not give you the right to engage in insurrection.

Now, do our colleagues really believe that the Constitution explicitly and repeatedly gives the government the power to suppress violent insurrections but the Second Amendment in invisible ink gives the people the right to engage in…

As Representative Raskin pointed out just last week, it is absolutely absurd.

There are still witnesses coming forward. And we still continue to learn more about the plot, even as all of the essential elements of Trump`s attempt to dismantle the results of the 2020 election and overturn the constitutional order are…

The lesson is, please tell your children out there in America, if you get a subpoena to go before Congress, if you get a subpoena to go to the court, go.

It was important for the country to see McConnell in his own words saying last night, that Donald Trump was singularly, ethically, practically responsible for everything that happened, which of course, it`s true.

Donald Trump surrendered his role as commander in chief and became the insider in chief.

The evidence will show you that he assembled inflamed, and incited his followers to descend upon the Capitol.

Hours had passed when he could have simply taken a walk for 10 or 15 seconds over to address the country and address his followers and tell them to go home. And people were besieging him, begging him to do that. And he refused to do that.

Although Donald Trump knows full well that he lost the election by more than seven million votes and 306 to 232, in the Electoral College, even though everyone around him knew that and knows that and tried to convince them of it, he still…

Well, generally, we're going to see what Donald Trump was doing and what he was not doing during that 187-minute fateful period of American history. He continued to exhort and inflame and incite the crowd.

It`s the Secret Service agents who presumably are reporting to Trump`s Secret Service agents were trying to spirit him off of the campus. And he said I`m not getting in that car until we count the Electoral College votes. He knew exactly…

From my perspective, the position that we should just let it run wild and not try to mitigate it can only be held if you do not believe that our economic security is important.

So it does. I mean, as you all in this room know better than I, when we see a 0.5 percentage point decrease in the labor participation rate, this is front-page news.

Mr. Chairman, thank you so much for this very important and shocking hearing.

They can still sell it to the rest of the world, but what we are saying is as citizens we don't want our government circumventing Fourth Amendment restrictions by being in that market.