He almost immediately began pressing to impeach Mr.
Raskin then lived through the mob attack on the Capitol. Raskin, a Harvard Law graduate, has also released a memoir, “Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy,” about 45 days that forever changed his life around the time of the Capitol siege.ĭays before the riot, his son, Tommy, 25 and a student at Harvard Law, died from suicide on New Year’s Eve. He is the chief sponsor of legislation to create a commission that could remove a president from office under the 25th Amendment. history and the nuances of the Constitution. Raskin is known on Capitol Hill for his detailed discussions of U.S. They attack the rule of law.”Ī former constitutional law professor at American University and a state senator from Maryland, Mr. They attack the peaceful transfer of power. “We have a former president who now has positioned himself and his supporters outside of the constitutional order. Prior to Congress, Raskin was a three-term State Senator in Maryland and a professor of constitutional law for more than a quarter-century at American. He successfully fought and recovered from colon cancer after surgery was performed in order to remove a part of his colon and was then followed up with more chemotherapy through the first half of 2011.“We are in the thick of a struggle to defend our democratic institutions and our democratic processes and the constitutional order,” he said. In May 2010, He was diagnosed with colon cancer and fought the disease with six weeks of radiation as well as Chemotherapy. Jamie Raskin has been a devoted vegetarian since the year 2009. The couple lives together happily and has two daughters whose names are Hannah and Tabitha and their son, the late Thomas. Said Gaetz: The country shouldn’t have to go. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), a member of the January 6 committee, claiming he was unable to do his job after losing his own child to suicide. Jat 12:29 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment. His wife was also nominated by Barack Obama to the Federal Reserve Board on the 28th of April in the year 2010 and sworn in in 2010 as the Governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Matt Gaetz Attacks Jamie Raskin Over Son’s Suicide. Jamie Raskin is married to the former Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation, Sarah Bloom Raskin. He was the lawyer who represented Ross Perot in the year 1996 when he was sued for being excluded from the Presidential Debates as well as on the counsel for Jesse Jackson’s National Rainbow Coalition. In 1987 he received his J.D from Harvard Law. He then went on to graduate m agna cum laude from Harvard Law School in the year 1963. Jamie Raskin completed his schooling at the Georgetown Day School in the year 1979. Kennedy and his mother’s name was Barbara Raskin and was a journalist as well as a novelist. His father’s name was Marcus Raskin and was a progressive activist who was a staff aide to President John F. Jamie Raskin was born on the 13th of December in the year 1962 in Washington D.C to a Jewish Family. We are devastated and demolished to be without him,”. He passionately loved his family, friends, and animals, and was devoted to the cause of the global poor. His brilliance and compassion knew no bounds.
You know, of course, the people that Tommy knew, his friends and his family, will always remember him and treasure him and love him. Jamie Raskin and his wife, Sarah Bloom Raskin, remembered their 25-year-old son Tommy in a private funeral ceremony Tuesday, a day after releasing a heartrending public. He spoke to the public with his wife alongside him and said, “Tommy was pure magic. Jamie Raskin (D-MD): Well, Judy, thank you for having me.