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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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Feb 15, 2025

I'm against corruption across the board.

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Feb 15, 2025

He may not [agree to withdraw the charges]. He may go ahead and try to appoint another prosecutor to go ahead and go through with the indictment that was handed down by a grand jury.

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Feb 15, 2025

The Justice Department is at war with its own attorneys, its own prosecutors, and the whole episode is just saturated with corruption.

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Feb 15, 2025

This is an outrageous violation of the rules of prosecutors and an offense against due process, and a very dangerous first move for the Department of Justice to be making under the Trump people.

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Feb 15, 2025

The dominant objective of this administration is corruption and lawlessness.

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Feb 13, 2025

Well, the whole episode is saturated with corruption. The case itself is about the corruption of the mayor and not only the U.S. attorneys office in New York, but a grand jury in New York found that there was probable cause to bring…

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Feb 13, 2025

The deputy attorney general was trying to demonstrate to everybody in the Department of Justice there's a new sheriff in town, and that's Donald Trump and the Department of Justice no longer has any independence at all in executing the…

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Feb 13, 2025

Take care of yourself and your family, because we’re in this for the long haul.

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Feb 13, 2025

We are not going to be able to sue our way out of what is a massive political crisis.

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Feb 13, 2025

Your Department of Justice has been caught engaging in a corrupt deal with Mayor Adams and now attempting to cover it up.

commondreams.org
Feb 13, 2025

Put an immediate halt to this illegal and unconscionable intimidation campaign.

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Feb 13, 2025

I mean, nobody should be sitting back and asking how Chuck Schumer or any other Democratic leader is going to save us.

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Feb 13, 2025

We need to make sure that Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico become states as quickly as possible.

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Feb 13, 2025

I’m hoping that we will be able to sue in such a way as to block the most authoritarian takeovers.

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Feb 13, 2025

I think it’s way too early to talk about how exactly we will recover from the nightmare we’re living through, but we will recover.

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Feb 13, 2025

We have to clean up all of the chaos if they want us to bail them out of their own intramural divisions.

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Feb 13, 2025

We’re going to get through this thing, and it’s going to be a very serious struggle.

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Feb 13, 2025

We need to reorganize the Democratic majority, which I’m convinced exists everywhere.

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Feb 13, 2025

The only solution to the ills of democracy is more democracy.

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Feb 13, 2025

We’re not going to sue our way out of a political crisis

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Feb 12, 2025

I know they talk about the deranged Trump syndrome. Now they are talking about the deranged Musk syndrome. I do know that Steve Bannon has described him as a truly evil individual, so I understand that there are major conflicts emerging…

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Feb 12, 2025

Congress created USAID 'for the American people.'

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Feb 12, 2025

Straight-up press censorship based on retaliatory viewpoint discrimination.

commondreams.org
Feb 4, 2025

You don’t control the money of the American people. Congress does...We don’t have a fourth branch of government called Elon Musk.

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