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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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Jul 26, 2022

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.

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Jul 26, 2022

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

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Jul 26, 2022

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

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Jul 26, 2022

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…

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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

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

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Jul 22, 2022

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.

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Jul 22, 2022

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…

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Jul 22, 2022

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.

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Jul 20, 2022

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

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Jul 20, 2022

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

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Jul 20, 2022

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.

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Jul 19, 2022

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…

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Jul 19, 2022

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.

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Jul 19, 2022

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…

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Jul 18, 2022

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.

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Jul 18, 2022

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.

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Jul 18, 2022

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.

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Jul 18, 2022

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

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Jul 15, 2022

Had I been present I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 363. Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress Allred (Neguse) Armstrong (Johnson (SD)) Barr (McHenry) Barragan (Correa) Bass (Correa) Bentz (Obernolte)…

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Jul 15, 2022

It`s obviously an alarming thing to learn that there were Secret Service text messages from January 6 itself and also the day before that were deleted as part of a device replacement program. We don`t know what the facts are, and we`re…

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Jul 14, 2022

It`s obviously an alarming thing to learn that there were Secret Service text messages from January 6 itself and also the day before that were deleted as part of a device replacement program. We don`t know what the facts are, and we`re…

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Jul 13, 2022

What are the early warning systems that we can put into place? And then, how do we fortify ourselves in terms of our electoral institutions or political institutions, against coups and insurrections and political violence going forward?

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Jul 13, 2022

We should be asking these people actually to blow the whistle publicly.

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