Jamie Raskin

It is so often treated as kind of a marginal thing. It is like a detail, and this is why we have organized political society.

The differential investment of law enforcement and police resources in the Native-American communities... is a matter of basic injustice and justice.

If democracy means anything, it is that the lives of all the people, in a moral sense, have to be treated equally by the government.

The causes driving the disproportionate rates of missing women of color are many and complex.

Black women and girls make up just 13 percent of the female population in the country but accounted for fully 35 percent of all missing women in 2020.

In 2020, 100,000 of the quarter million women and girls who went missing in the U.S. were black, brown, or indigenous.

This is a crisis that is hiding in plain sight, and I hope the hearing will help us to shine a light on the shocking plague of missing and murdered women and girls in communities of color across the country.

Will one of our Republican colleagues--one of them-- denounce Donald Trump or dissociate themselves from his remarks praising Vladimir Putin and calling him a genius?

Donald Trump's own COVID-19 advisor, Deborah Birx, has said that we lost unnecessarily hundreds of thousands of people because of the failures of Donald Trump.

Here's a poll that Donald Trump and his party should consult: the vast majority of the American people reject fascist Vladimir Putin's war of imperial aggression against the democratic nation of Ukraine.

We can design it the way we think we need to design it, in order both to vindicate the interest of staff.

We are the Congress of the United States, and we have to get the job of lawmaking done.

For those of us who lived through January the 6th, we saw old fashioned White nationalism and racism alive and well at our front door.

We are great champions of strategic and cooperative federalism, and I think that these provisions have exemplified what it means to actually get power, get control, and get money to the county and local governments closest to the needs of…

The funds helped to provide financial assistance to low-income working families.

I remember when the committee was considering creating the state and local fiscal recovery funds back in February 2021 and there was a deluge of bipartisan demand from all over the country for this help.

So, you’ve got an entire political party which has positioned itself outside of the constitutional order, which is attacking the outcome of our elections and our basic constitutional processes.

What’s interesting, though, is that Donald Trump has only consolidated his control over the GOP, which now operates like an authoritarian political-religious cult.

Well, all of it flows out of the big lie. Of course, if you start with the premise that Donald Trump won, then of course, you’re going to need to go out and certify these fraudulent electors.

We haven't yet enacted a comprehensive Federal privacy statute to address the rise of the Big Other.

I think the lesson we can take from all these data points being combined about us is, one, it shows how important it is to have a comprehensive privacy law that covers personal data generally rather than the sectoral laws.

Donald Trump is right now out there defending his decision to try to overthrow Biden's majority in the Electoral College, saying Mike Pence had the authority to overturn the election.

Our mandate, of course, is to get to the bottom of the events. And to tell America the truth so that people can see the clear chronology of events and the causation of different things.

Given that 6-3 majority, I would tend to favor the nomination of someone who will be able to speak out as forcefully for the democratic constitution.

We saw that kind of laxity with Donald Trump, when he was around Vladimir Putin.