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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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Sep 28, 2020

It is shameful, absolutely shameful that the FBI chose to ignore the committee's request to attend.

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Sep 28, 2020

White supremacy has no place in any police department.

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Sep 28, 2020

Their mission is straightforward. They are asking for the bare minimum: that our Nation be a place where the lives and deaths of Black Americans matter.

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Sep 23, 2020

The entire voting rights movement of the 1960s... was premised on the idea that we would be able to cast votes but that our votes would also count.

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Sep 23, 2020

It is critically important, I would suggest, that Congress and the president do so.

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Sep 23, 2020

That is a lie. Already one in four people in the United States vote by mail before this year. It has happened in states with minimal problem and with no, no, no evidence of widespread fraud or misconduct, and we need it this year to help…

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Sep 23, 2020

Yesterday, President Trump refused to commit himself to the peaceful transfer of power when he was asked by a reporter, and he said, 'We are going to have to see what happens. You know that I have been complaining very strongly about the…

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Sep 23, 2020

Well, why are we getting this continual barrage of complaints that somehow religious groups are being unfairly targeted in COVID-19 when in fact the Supreme Court has already rejected the argument that they are making?

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Sep 23, 2020

Does the religious-free exercise clause exempt churches and synagogues and so on from public health orders that are handed down by states or counties?

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Sep 23, 2020

The entire voting rights movement of the 1960s that was designed to ensure that Black people could finally, at long last, participate equally in the political process, was premised on the idea that we would be able to cast votes but that…

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Sep 23, 2020

A week ago, FBI Director Wray warned the Homeland Security Committee that Vladimir Putin and Russian agents are, again, interfering in the U.S. presidential election in order to skew and influence the outcome of the election.

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Sep 22, 2020

Listening to our colleagues wax eloquent about how great the economy was before millions of people were thrown out of work...

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Sep 22, 2020

I'm also a little surprised that they've decided to go back to China as a way to distract people from the President's epic failures...

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Sep 22, 2020

The President and his advisers have embraced a policy of herd immunity, which the President sometimes calls herd mentality, which really means a policy of mass human sacrifice that has already cost us 200,000 lives

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Sep 13, 2020

I appreciate it. Thank you for calling this astounding hearing.

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Sep 9, 2020

The threat of an inaccurate count is no more of a blue state problem than COVID-19 is a blue state problem.

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Sep 9, 2020

It is infinitely harder in the middle of a pandemic, and the intricate plans and military like schedule that were a decade in the making have been completely upended by this out of control coronavirus crisis.

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Sep 9, 2020

Three percent may not seem like a big deal although, of course, we know lots of elections are settled by three percent of the vote.

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Sep 9, 2020

The Census is important for two main things: money and power.

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Sep 9, 2020

The Trump administration lost its battle to paste a citizenship question last minute onto the Census in the Supreme Court.

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Sep 8, 2020

This move is a political ploy to make it seem as if Federal employees are earning more money than they're actually earning.

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Sep 8, 2020

We ended up with only 10 percent of that figure, $400 million.

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Sep 8, 2020

The House majority took the position that we needed $4 billion for the states. The GOP opposed that.

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Sep 8, 2020

This article makes clear that our colleagues' oft-repeated claim that 28 million mail-in ballots went missing is misleading, a mischaracterization, and mostly false.

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