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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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Oct 6, 2021

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…

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Oct 5, 2021

This was a coup, not against the president, but by the president against Mike Pence, because, for that one day, he decided not to follow Donald Trump, but to follow the Constitution of the United States.

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Oct 5, 2021

And now, like a sycophantic flunky, he clearly returns right to the cultish fold of Donald Trump. I mean, it`s just amazing to me to see that.

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Oct 5, 2021

Here, Mike Pence was facing a mob that was chanting 'Hang Mike Pence.' They`d set up, like, gallows outside of the Capitol. And this was a coup, not against the president, but by the president against Mike Pence, because, for that one day…

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Oct 5, 2021

We have got a strong bipartisan committee that is determined to get to the truth about the worst violent assault on the U.S. Capitol since the War of 1812, an attempt to overthrow the counting of Electoral College votes to basically oust…

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Oct 4, 2021

it is clearly a code red for humanity.

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Oct 4, 2021

I will resist the opportunity to say that the entire last Presidency was a disaster.

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Oct 4, 2021

We’re going to lay out a very strong case for democracy and what we need to do to repair our democracy so we’re not vulnerable to fascist violence in the future.

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Oct 4, 2021

There’s a very troubling situation because the vast majority of the American people rejects Trump, Trumpism, violent insurrection, and all of their big lies on everything from climate change to COVID-19, to the election to January 6.

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Oct 1, 2021

We`re just trying to fill in the details now. And we are trying to figure out exactly what the connections are between the Trump entourage and the Trump White House and the oath keepers, the 3 percenters, the different armed insurrection…

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Sep 30, 2021

A subpoena from the United States Congress is about the most serious thing that can show up in your mail box that you can be served with.

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Sep 30, 2021

I don`t bet against Nancy Pelosi. She is going to land this plane with the help of Chuck Schumer and, of course, because of President Biden`s leadership.

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Sep 30, 2021

We want to pass the entire package and stop playing parliamentary games with this (INAUDIBLE) year that he`s there.

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Sep 29, 2021

Every family's situation is different. And the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey made this a personal decision.

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Sep 29, 2021

This cesspool of conspiracy thinking is activating unstable individuals predisposed to commit violence.

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Sep 29, 2021

Failure is not an option for us because democracy is at stake we’ve got one Democracy Party, which is the Democratic Party we have another political party that’s basically been hijacked by one right wing authoritarian guy who is demanding…

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Sep 29, 2021

Women in the United States have had a constitutional right to an abortion since 1973, and that is not an argument. That is an old-fashioned thing called a fact.

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Sep 29, 2021

That is America in the 21st century today with the constitutional right to privacy under attack.

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Sep 29, 2021

The point is every woman's situation is completely different and deeply personal.

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Sep 29, 2021

That is an outrage and that is a scandal. That is totalitarian.

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Sep 29, 2021

Who is going to make these most private and intimate decisions?

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Sep 29, 2021

Should the law be changed so that women and girls who are raped can be forced to bear their rapist's child?

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Sep 28, 2021

We are facing an unprecedented situation in which political leaders, up to and including a former President, have been actively promoting corrosive anti-democratic messages that circulate paranoia, cynicism, and violence.

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Sep 28, 2021

I know you speak for millions of Americans across the political spectrum in wanting to ensure that Americans civil rights and civil liberties are not sacrificed by the government in the creation of a surveillance state.

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