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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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Aug 15, 2021

No courts have ever found that there was either a constitutional or a statutory problem with the kinds of changes.

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Aug 9, 2021

The President said, well, Kevin, I guess these people, meaning the mobsters, the insurrectionists, are more upset about the election than you are.

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Jul 29, 2021

Congresswoman Cheney said at our very first meeting that she wanted a minute-by-minute account of everything that was taking place in the White House during the attack.

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Jul 29, 2021

while Congressional leaders of both parties were calling the president and begging him to call off the dogs and to do something to help, he just continued to escalate the political pressure on Mike Pence.

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Jul 29, 2021

I just can’t take the lying anymore. And I don’t want to be party to propaganda and disinformation and the suppression of the truth.

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Jul 29, 2021

Did you watch the testimony of the Capitol officers who defended our lives on January 6, or did you not? It`s a yes or no question.

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Jul 29, 2021

Those who attacked you and those who beat you are fascist traitors to our country and will be remembered forever as fascist traitors.

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Jul 29, 2021

the House already impeached the former president for inciting violent insurrection. The Senate voted 57-43 to convict him.

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Jul 28, 2021

You cannot out-organize a law that criminalizes you for trying to help your grandmother vote.

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Jul 28, 2021

I have a motion at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Raskin of Maryland moves to reconsider the vote on adoption of House Resolution 567. Motion to Table Mr. McGOVERN. Mr…

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Jul 28, 2021

I am for uniform rules that help people get the right to vote. I am against uniform rules that try to crush the right to vote.

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Jul 28, 2021

Do you think that what they experienced was an attack by tourists or terrorists or violent insurrectionist?

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Jul 28, 2021

We are supposed to, instead, trust one political party.

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Jul 28, 2021

The cost of inaction will be devastating for our democracy.

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Jul 28, 2021

We keep raising as kind of a procedural objection what is really a substantive disagreement.

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Jul 28, 2021

I always have John Lewis right over my shoulder as a reminder that we sometimes, in a nonviolent way, have to push back against oppression and injustice.

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Jul 28, 2021

I will not tolerate intimidation or abuse of witnesses.

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Jul 28, 2021

These Republican voter suppression bills took pains to avoid mentioning race, but they are aimed directly American voters of color.

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Jul 28, 2021

This is just another dressed up form of voter suppression, of disenfranchisement.

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Jul 28, 2021

We have to fight back against this new campaign for voter suppression sparked by the Big Lie.

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Jul 28, 2021

We have got to overcome that urge to exclude people from voting.

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Jul 28, 2021

I am so appalled by those that continue to enable that kind of rhetoric that really brought so much violence on January 6 to this Capitol.

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Jul 28, 2021

But blocking a quorum is not a permanent solution to the problem of efforts to disenfranchise people and suppress the vote in America.

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Jul 28, 2021

This zealous pursuit of a massive draconian crackdown on voting is now a national crisis.

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Jul 28, 2021

Congress has to act. We have a responsibility to guarantee the people of the United States a republican form of government.

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