Jamie Raskin

Today, Donald Trump said the insurrection took place on November 3rd. No, Mr. Trump, I’m sorry. That’s what we call an election. We know an insurrection when we see one, in this body, because we lived through one.

We are investigating the attack on Congress by domestic enemies of our Constitution because we are sworn to do so by our oath of office. In America, when you are subpoenaed to testify in court or in Congress, you show up, period. If you…

We know an insurrection when we see one in this body because we lived through one.

We are the lawmaking branch. We have the power over the amending process.

The President's role is to take care that the laws are faithfully executed.

I am delighted to hear my friend from Louisiana speak in strong favor of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Right-wing violence is now a lethal threat to American democracy.

I think if they do their job, and I have confidence that Attorney General Garland will do his job, they will move for criminal prosecution of people who are openly flouting in order for the U.S. Congress to come and testify on an issue…

The Committee should aggressively enforce our right to get people's testimony and to get the documents we've subpoenaed, and there is no problem with that.

He hopes the Department of Justice will aggressively enforce the law, so people don't get away with committing crimes like this.

We expect anyone who is subpoenaed to comply with lawful orders.

Steve Bannon committed a crime today. People have to understand that. Because it is important that people obey subpoenas they get whether from a court or from Congress. These are orders of law. You have to comply with them.

This is a legal order as well as a civic duty to share info about the most sweeping violent attack on Congress since the war of 1812.

I`m advising the deployment of the full panoply of enforcement powers at the disposal of the United States Congress. That includes criminal contempt powers, civil contempt power that people govern here, and no one is above the law, not a…

The people govern here, and no one is above the law, not a president, not a former president, not the political cronies of the former president.

Donald Trump refuse to accept the results. And unfortunately, we have one of the world`s great political parties, which has followed him off of the ledge of this electoral lunacy. And it`s dangerous for democracy.

Donald Trump refuses to accept the results. And, unfortunately, we have one of the world`s great political parties which has followed him off of the ledge of this electoral lunacy.

We have people today in this hearing trying to perpetrate the big lie.

That is turning information over the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and trying to get the Department of Justice to demand that these people appear in court and be jailed until the point at which they cooperate with the…

It matters a great deal.

You know, America Project was one of those firms, run by Patrick Byrne, the former chief executive of Overstock.com, who has sought to overturn the 2020 election based on unfounded conspiracy theories.

The real reason why the Arizona Senate entrusted this process to Doug Logan and the Cyber Ninjas was to undermine public confidence in our elections.

The fact that the Arizona Senate entrusted their so-called audit to a partisan political hack like Doug Logan is revealing as to the true purpose of the so-called audit.

There is no fraud or corruption materially affecting the outcome of the election in Arizona in 2020.

The elections in Arizona were free, fair, and accurate and that Joe Biden won by more than 45,000 votes.