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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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Jun 18, 2022

somebody who does their job and sticks to the law will stand out as a hero on that day.

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Jun 18, 2022

it's hard to think of a more grave offense – and the question of deterrence and is it important to deter coups and insurrections? And I would say yes.

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Jun 18, 2022

the attorney general really shouldn't be reacting to particular provocations by particular politicians or criminals.

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Jun 18, 2022

Donald Trump knew the Big Lie was a big lie. They used it also as a big shakedown and a ripoff of his supporters to keep money rolling in.

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Jun 18, 2022

there are a number of reforms to the Electoral Count Act, reforms to the protection of the right to vote, reforms to the electoral process that will dramatically reduce the chances that someone can succeed in trying to impose an exercise…

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Jun 18, 2022

there is a clear and present danger right now heading into the 2024 elections that Donald Trump and the Trumpist forces will attempt the same kind of maneuver to usurp the will of the people and just declare himself president.

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Jun 18, 2022

We almost suffered a coup, and we did suffer a violent insurrection on January the 6th.

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Jun 18, 2022

But accountability also means collective accountability, and that's the real project that we're engaged in under House Resolution 503 – telling the truth to the people so we can make decisions about how to fortify democratic institutions…

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Jun 18, 2022

Yeah, he's essentially saying, 'Yeah, I did it, and I'll do it again,' which is what we have been contending all along, that if you allow impunity for attempts at unconstitutional seizures of power, which is what a coup is, then you're…

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Jun 15, 2022

we have every interest in seeing that individual criminal accountability takes place, as well as our collective social and political accountability for fortifying democratic institutions going forward against coups, insurrections…

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Jun 15, 2022

It was perfectly clear, as a matter of law as well as a matter of fact that Donald Trump lost the election and that it was over and that the vice president had no such powers.

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Jun 15, 2022

It is something that is moving through the House judiciary committee right now, to try to get the Supreme Court to bind themselves the way every other court in the land has a real procedure for asserting a conflict of interest.

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Jun 15, 2022

I know the information we have presented over the last week is shocking--the idea that a President of the United States would orchestrate a scheme to stay in power after the people have voted him out of office.

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Jun 15, 2022

I repeat: I would have never uttered one single one of those words unless the former President and his allies were candidly and proudly speaking those exact words to America.

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Jun 15, 2022

We are committed to getting all of the facts related to everything that happened, and delivering them to the people.

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Jun 15, 2022

I would have never spoken those words ever in my life except that that is what the former President and his allies are telling us.

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Jun 15, 2022

I would have laid my body across the road before I would have let the Vice President overturn the 2020 election.

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Jun 15, 2022

I don’t think Donald Trump was trying to reform the Electoral College, he was trying to seize the presidency.

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Jun 14, 2022

There`s not a general catch all federal statute that allows for Congress to make criminal referrals to the Department of Justice. We have the power and the authority. And I think the duty to publish all the information we have about crimes…

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Jun 13, 2022

the failure to institute the most simple mechanisms of accuracy to check where the money is going is just indefensible.

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Jun 13, 2022

the greatest country on earth can do better than this in distributing a huge amount of money.

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Jun 13, 2022

I want to start just by thanking you for your resolute determination to ferret out the corruption and the fraud which undermined the programs that we voted for our people.

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Jun 13, 2022

We've got criminals waiting in the wings to rip off the program.

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Jun 13, 2022

This is enough for us to be able to tell the public that the Big Lie was also a Big Scam, a Big Rip Off as Zoe Lofgren put it.

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Jun 13, 2022

Donald Trump figured out a way to keep the spigots of money flowing even after he lost the election, and that was by claiming he had won the election and it was being stolen from him.

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