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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.
The Rules Committee met yesterday and reported a rule, House Resolution 1065 providing for consideration of S. 3522, the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act under a closed rule. The rule provides for 1 hour of debate equally divided…
For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Reschenthaler), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is…
we have documented 88 separate incidents of political interference in the pandemic response by Trump officials
I am prepared to close when my friend from Pennsylvania is prepared to close, and I reserve the balance of my time.
It`ll be a mostly new playbook. Because they won`t for example have the vice president of the United States. So the whole play against Mike Pence to get him to declare and announce unilateral unprecedented extra constitutional powers to…
He has to suppress the fact that he had the exact same reaction that the vast majority of members of Congress and the vast majority of the public had. I mean, he was horrified and he knew that in this environment where six people had…
the philosophy is the same, which is rule or ruin. Either we`re going to rule everything or we`re going to ruin the possibility for democracy to work and for the government to make any progress.
It’s really the greatest political crime in American history ever organized by a president in attempt to overthrow a presidential election.
We’ve given the nature of constitutional federalism in America by definition our recommendations will go all the way up and down the system in terms of securing the right to vote, which is federal dimensions, which has state dimensions to…
Well, Trump had tried multiple different efforts to overthrow Biden`s majority in the Electoral College. They tried to intimidate and browbeat election officials, like Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in Georgia. That was caught on…
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 what…
Because in a democracy, the people have the right to know about what`s taking place with our government. And we have to preserve our democratic institutions going forward against coos and insurrections, and suppression of the vote and…
They were hoping to sanitize the insurrection and the coup by having a contingent election where they could legitimately say, we`ve got 27 states although you subtract Wyoming because I doubt Liz Cheney would have voted.
What was their attitude towards the violence on the streets, what was their plan, how far were they willing to take it in terms of trying to get Pence to reject Electoral College votes from Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, perhaps…
All of these 1000s of texts make the argument for why we need Mark Meadows to come in and testify to explain precisely what his role was.
He uttered what I think are the six most chilling words of this entire thing I have seen so far.
Pence uttered what I think are the six most chilling words of this entire thing I've seen so far.
he wanted to continue all the way to complete whatever calling, the Green Bay sweep, which I am calling, a coup.
the president was deeply involved in this event. He was at the center of these events.
Had Mike Pence succumbed to the extraordinary pressure and coercion campaign being brought down upon him by Donald Trump and his lieutenants, what would have happened is that Pence would have returned to senator dozens of electoral college…
it was really only Mike Pence refusing to play ball with the president that he had served in such obsequious way for four years, and the valor and the heroism of the officers who stood between members of Congress and the mob and the…
There a vivid reminder of what was clear to everybody who was caught up in the violent insurrection in the attempted coup against Congress and against the constitutional order, which is that the President was deeply involved in these…
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