Jamin Ben Raskin was born on December 13,1962 and is an American attorney, law professor, and politician serving as the US representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district since 2017.
26 Facts About Jamie Raskin
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Jamie Raskin was the lead impeachment manager for the second impeachment of President Donald Trump in response to the attack on the US Capitol.
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Jamie Raskin's mother was a journalist and novelist, and his father was a former staff aide to President John F Kennedy on the National Security Council, co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies, and a progressive activist.
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For more than 25 years, Jamie Raskin was a constitutional law professor at American University Washington College of Law, where he taught future fellow impeachment manager Stacey Plaskett.
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From 1989 to 1990, Jamie Raskin served as general counsel for Jesse Jackson's National Rainbow Coalition.
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Jamie Raskin wrote a Washington Post op-ed that strongly condemned the Federal Election Commission and the Commission on Presidential Debates for their decisions.
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In 2006, Jamie Raskin was elected as a Maryland state senator for District 20, representing parts of Silver Spring and Takoma Park in Montgomery County.
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Jamie Raskin sponsored bills advocating the repeal of the death penalty in Maryland, the expansion of the state ignition interlock device program, and the establishment of the legal guidelines for benefit corporations, a type of for-profit corporation that includes a material societal benefit in its bylaws and decision-making processes.
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Jamie Raskin long championed efforts to reform marijuana laws and legalize medical marijuana in Maryland.
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Jamie Raskin introduced a medical marijuana bill in 2014 that was signed by Governor Martin O'Malley and went into effect in January 2015.
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Jamie Raskin helped lead the fight to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland.
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Jamie Raskin was viewed as the most liberal candidate in the race.
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The primary election was the most expensive House race in 2016, and Jamie Raskin was heavily outspent.
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Jamie Raskin questioned the legitimacy of the election, claiming it was "badly tainted by everything from cyber-sabotage by Vladimir Putin, to deliberate voter suppression by Republicans in numerous swing states".
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In late June 2017, Jamie Raskin was the chief sponsor of legislation to establish a congressional "oversight" commission with the authority to declare a president "incapacitated" and removed from office under the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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On January 12,2021, Jamie Raskin was named the lead impeachment manager for the Senate trial during Trump's second impeachment.
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Jamie Raskin was the primary author of the impeachment article, along with Representatives David Cicilline and Ted Lieu, which charged Trump with inciting an insurrection on the United States Capitol.
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In February 2022, while his wife was under consideration for a position as the Federal Reserve's vice chair of supervision, it was reported that Jamie Raskin violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act by failing to properly disclose her share dealings.
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Jamie Raskin's wife had sat on the advisory board of the Federal Reserve when it "granted Reserve Trust unusual access to its master account", but it is not clear when she first acquired the shares.
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On July 1,2021, Jamie Raskin was one of seven Democrats appointed to the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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On July 12,2022, Jamie Raskin co-led the Select Committee's seventh public hearing with Representative Stephanie Murphy.
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Jamie Raskin is married to Sarah Bloom Jamie Raskin, who served as the Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation from 2007 to 2010.
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Jamie Raskin served as the United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury from March 19,2014, to January 20,2017.
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On December 31,2020, Jamie Raskin's office announced that his son Tommy, a graduate of Montgomery Blair High School, a graduate of Amherst College, and a second-year student at Harvard Law School, had died at the age of 25.
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Jamie Raskin received six weeks of radiation and chemotherapy, and surgery to remove part of his colon, followed by more chemotherapy through early 2011.
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In December 2022, Jamie Raskin announced that he had been diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, and said he would undergo chemoimmunotherapy, which he completed in April 2023.