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.
Banning books of those of minority background and unique backgrounds, silences their voices and erases their history, and arguably is taking away the right to express themselves.
We can't force LGBTQ+ kids into situations where the only time they hear about their community and themselves is when their rights are being debated between students.
It is important to teach inclusion and equality. It is important to have representation.
I believe that words have a lot of power and that they can teach us empathy and strengthen our democracy.
I think that this kind of hatred is learned and entirely preventable, but the bullying has only been amplified as book bans have become more pervasive.
I think students have their right to check out age-appropriate material from their libraries, whether or not it contains material that's divisive.
The tweets spoke for themselves. Donald Trump was trying to inflame the mob and further unleash its fury against Mike Pence.
It`s what the political scientists call a self-coup, where the President engages in a coup against the constitutional system.
Now, tomorrow, I`m taking to the floor contempt motions against Dan Scavino and Peter Navarro who have not given us a single document and have not spent one minute before the committee interacting with complete contempt for the Congress…
This is a small step. We don't want to overstate it. But it is a very significant one.
The survival of our species is in peril because of the dramatic consequences of climate change.
What a massive outbreak of common sense in America against the GOP`s failed authoritarian war on marijuana that depends on paranoid tropes from the 1970s.
So, please spare us the nonsense talk about executive privilege rejected now by every court that has looked at it. This is America. And there’s no executive privilege here for presidents, much less trade advisors to plot coups and organize…
It's disappointed me that one of our esteemed colleagues chose to recycle debunked partisan dogma about defunding the police...
One possibility when a gap like this exists is that the President or whomever we`re looking at, is using a different phone.
This is America. And there’s no executive privilege here for presidents, much less trade advisers, to plot coups.
The American people opposed the January 6 insurrection, and the American people oppose future insurrections and coups against our government.
This is America and there’s no executive privilege here for presidents much less trade advisors to plot coups and organize insurrections against the People’s Government.
This attempted coup would have 'permanently ended the peaceful transition of power in America,' threatening the survival and democracy.
The assault on American democracy that exploded on January 6... was a secret campaign on the inside to replace our constitutional process and governing presidential elections with a tissue of lies.





