Jamie Raskin
The Public Record
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 people's body will speak this week. And if it goes the way I hope we will go, we will impeach this President for abuse of power, we will impeach this President for obstruction of the Congress.
We are supposed to stand sentinel to make sure that the President will only enforce the laws.
America remembers when then-candidate Donald Trump uttered the imperishably infamous words: Russia, if you are listening...
If you don't think it is a big deal for the President of the United States to shake down foreign governments and pressure them to get involved in our campaigns, just tell us so.
We cannot allow this misconduct to pass. It would be a sellout of our Constitution, our foreign policy, our national security, and our democracy.
I think that there is not any credible evidence from any of the witnesses, or anything in the record to suggest that the President was actually trying to ferret out corruption as opposed to impose a corrupt scheme on the President of…
Mr. President, this is not about you. This is about all of us, what kind of behavior we are willing to tolerate.
President Trump makes Richard Nixon look like a little leaguer when it comes to obstruction.
The President cannot have the power to destroy our oversight investigative power.
He wanted a statement on television that Ukraine was investigating and was going to investigate Vice President Joe Biden.
Significant improvements to policies and procedures are needed to ensure full and consistent enforcement of anti-harassment and hate incident policies.
The Coast Guard military leadership failed to conduct prompt, thorough, and impartial investigations of allegations of harassment and bullying.
Today, we bring our fellow citizens overwhelming and totally uncontradicted evidence of two high crimes and misdemeanors against the American people.
The House had no choice but to impeach, because, under our Constitution, the President's job is to take care that the laws are faithfully executed.
No actions were taken against any of the officials involved in this substantiated retaliation.
We should not tolerate a single act of bullying or harassment against a member of any branch of our armed services.





