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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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Apr 8, 2025

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…

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Apr 8, 2025

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…

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Apr 8, 2025

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…

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Apr 8, 2025

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…

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Apr 8, 2025

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…

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Apr 8, 2025

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…

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Apr 8, 2025

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…

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Apr 1, 2025

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…

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Mar 24, 2025

The proper response is to appeal their decision. That's how we work it out. Under a system of the rule of law.

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Mar 24, 2025

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.

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Mar 24, 2025

with these people in charge, World War III could start with a pocket call.

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Mar 23, 2025

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…

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Mar 23, 2025

You are plainly violating the constitutional rights of DoD families.

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Mar 19, 2025

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.

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Mar 11, 2025

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…

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Mar 6, 2025

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.

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Mar 6, 2025

By threatening to seek costs and damages from private litigants, Donald Trump is trying to scare Americans out of court.

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Mar 5, 2025

We write to demand that you immediately put an end to the cover-up and retaliation...

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Mar 2, 2025

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…

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Mar 2, 2025

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…

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Mar 2, 2025

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…

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Feb 27, 2025

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.

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Feb 23, 2025

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.

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Feb 18, 2025

for cause protections were unconstitutional.

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