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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 1, 2022

the autocrats and the kleptocrats and the theocrats all over earth are marching against democracy and trying to destroy democratic institutions.

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Sep 1, 2022

I suppose the major political fault line we`re seeing right now is between a nation that is half free choice for women and half theocrat and half misogynist.

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Sep 1, 2022

We need a constitutional amendment guaranteeing everybody the right to vote.

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Aug 12, 2022

I mean, this went through an independent neutral magistrate who issued the warrant based upon probable cause. And these are very serious offenses.

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Aug 12, 2022

we`re saving people thousands of dollars, specifically for all of my friends out there who have diabetes were limiting insulin costs to $35.00 a month, you cannot be forced to pay more than $35.00 a month.

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Aug 12, 2022

I think I thought from the beginning of the Trump administration that this was a guy who was far more loyal to his fellow kleptocrats and autocrats around the world, people like Putin and Orban and El-Sisi than he was to the people of the…

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Aug 12, 2022

Obstruction of justice is a crime. And it`s a crime we take seriously.

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Aug 12, 2022

the party of democracy, the Democratic Party is showing not just that we`re defending democracy, but we`re making democracy work for the people over the worst possible obstructionism that we`re seeing from the other side.

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Aug 12, 2022

I hope that the Republican Party will start listening to Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.

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Jul 29, 2022

we don`t want to get stuck fighting the last battle when really what we know is that the entire institutions of electoral democracy are under attack.

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Jul 29, 2022

So, I think you have to suspend disbelief a little bit to fall for that.

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Jul 29, 2022

We`re determined to retrieve all missing texts and to assemble all of the evidence that is technologically possible to access and we are planning to do that.

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Jul 29, 2022

I just don`t know why everybody`s texts and e- mails were suddenly disappearing all over the place. So, I assume it`s not just a technological problem, but we`ll get to the bottom of it.

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Jul 29, 2022

We want to make sure that the Department of Homeland Security and its leaders were doing their job.

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Jul 29, 2022

the vast majority of our witnesses have been Republicans, and the people that we`ve put up there for America to see have been Republicans like Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a lifelong Republican and big Trump donor, who told the…

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Jul 29, 2022

Well, the first thing I want to say is I trust Cassidy Hutchinson who has proven to be right about just everything, who has no incentive to lie, no penchant for lying, no record of lying and no motive to lie.

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Jul 28, 2022

It`s like a waterfall of truth at this point. I mean, just as there was a dynamic of lies and deception by Donald Trump starting with the big lie, we have turned that around.

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Jul 28, 2022

It just seems too irregular and unlikely that there would be a disappearance of texts right during the period of the insurrection, especially when multiple Chairs of House Committees sent letters directly to the Secretaries of the…

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Jul 28, 2022

We`re calling on everybody to do his or her civic duty, his or her legal duty, his or her constitutional duty, his or her patriotic duty, and come forward and tell the truth.

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Jul 28, 2022

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.

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Jul 27, 2022

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…

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Jul 26, 2022

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…

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Jul 26, 2022

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

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Jul 26, 2022

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.

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Jul 26, 2022

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

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