Listening to the debate, it occurs to me that Bonnie and Clyde and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid should have just denounced traditional activism and moved to change the Federal rules of civil procedure: Always better to blame the…
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.
I include in the Record ``The Lost History of the `Universal' Injunction,'' a law review article by Mila Sohoni refuting what was just stated by the gentleman. The universal injunction, the nationwide injunction, goes back at least to 1913…
The Supreme Court has already rejected at least two of the actions that Donald Trump has taken since he got in. One was firing the executive director of the Office of Special Counsel. He was reinstated. The other was reinstating a $2.1…
Nationwide injunctions are something that my friends across the aisle not only endorsed but took liberal advantage of in the last administration. Remember Judge Matt Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas? They were lining up around…
The link to the entire document can be found here: https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/920- 1009__Online.pdf. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Johnson), the ranking member…
I thank the gentleman for his astute observations there and say that Judge Kacsmaryk was reversed several times by higher courts. We never came out and said, therefore, let's ban nationwide injunctions. We did say we should reform judge…
Both Democrats and some Republicans have assailed the clearly unlawful nature of this trade war instituted by President Trump based on tariffs against the entire world except for Vladimir Putin in Russia, and Congress has the power under…
While my GOP colleagues passively watch Trump punish his critics and take a jackhammer to the work of anti-corruption fighters at the Department of Justice, Democrats are lifting up the tough Americans who are standing strong against the…
The proper response is to appeal their decision. That's how we work it out. Under a system of the rule of law.
Oh, no, not -- not at all. I mean, the whole reason that Trump and Musk are throwing all of this money at it is they know he won't be an independent judge.
with these people in charge, World War III could start with a pocket call.
We are alarmed by reports that children at DoD schools were prevented from accessing any library books and many learning materials for a week while officials conducted a ‘review’ to identify any books that are related to the mysterious…
She’s got boundless promise as the party leader in our country. But the question is who will have the language to express to America where we need to go.
The detention of Mahmoud Khalil is ripped straight from the authoritarian playbook. His arrest sets an extremely dangerous and chilling precedent from an administration that is hellbent on wielding fear and intimidation as weapons to crush…
By stripping security clearances from attorneys at Perkins Coie, Trump wants to make an example of lawyers who stand up for the law, which is what lawyers do.
By threatening to seek costs and damages from private litigants, Donald Trump is trying to scare Americans out of court.
We write to demand that you immediately put an end to the cover-up and retaliation...
Last month, troubling reports emerged about the Trump Administration's demand that federal prosecutors move to dismiss the serious public corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams as part of a blatant and illegal quid pro…
Unfortunately, this is yet another example of the Trump DOJ allowing criminals to go free — whether they assaulted police officers, sold drugs to the community, or are corrupt politicians — as long as the criminals pledge loyalty to…
Not only did the Department of Justice (DOJ) attempt to pressure career prosecutors into carrying out this illegal quid pro quo, it appears that Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove was personally engaged in a cover-up by destroying…
The CFPB is undoubtedly a super-compelling case, because it is taking on all of the rip-off schemes and con artists in the country that are shaking down our people.
Compelling civil servants to answer to an unanswerable fourth branch of government, as Rep. Jamie Raskin puts it, seems not only unprecedented but uniquely un-American.





