No courts have ever found that there was either a constitutional or a statutory problem with the kinds of changes.
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.
The President said, well, Kevin, I guess these people, meaning the mobsters, the insurrectionists, are more upset about the election than you are.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Those who attacked you and those who beat you are fascist traitors to our country and will be remembered forever as fascist traitors.
the House already impeached the former president for inciting violent insurrection. The Senate voted 57-43 to convict him.
You cannot out-organize a law that criminalizes you for trying to help your grandmother vote.
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…
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.
Do you think that what they experienced was an attack by tourists or terrorists or violent insurrectionist?
We keep raising as kind of a procedural objection what is really a substantive disagreement.
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.
These Republican voter suppression bills took pains to avoid mentioning race, but they are aimed directly American voters of color.
This is just another dressed up form of voter suppression, of disenfranchisement.
We have to fight back against this new campaign for voter suppression sparked by the Big Lie.
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.
But blocking a quorum is not a permanent solution to the problem of efforts to disenfranchise people and suppress the vote in America.
This zealous pursuit of a massive draconian crackdown on voting is now a national crisis.
Congress has to act. We have a responsibility to guarantee the people of the United States a republican form of government.





