6 coup attempt accountable continue with his seat on the House select committee investigating the attack. Raskin’s efforts to hold Trump and the conspirators of the Jan. Like most people, he had no idea that just showing up would be dangerous, and that a plot to overthrow the election was not just being pursued by a few members of Congress in the form of objections to the count, but by violent extremists who gathered in Washington, charged the Capitol with weapons, broke in to chants of “Hang Mike Pence,” and whose actions led to a state of siege. But the congressman knew several Republicans planned to object to the certifications, and said in the latest Political Theater podcast that “I just knew I had to be there.” Raskin’s two daughters asked him to skip the usually pro-forma proceedings. 5, 2021, one day before Congress was to certify Joe Biden’s Electoral College win. Trump was acquitted by the Senate in both impeachment trials, but Raskin’s contributions helped establish the arguments against not just the former president’s actions, but, in Raskin’s view, the authoritarianism that Trump represented and which threatens to snuff democratic societies and ideals.ĭuring the second impeachment process, Raskin was also dealing with the shattering grief of the late 2020 death by suicide of his son Tommy.
RASKIN TRAGEDY TRIAL
6, 2021 riot at the Capitol, and Raskin served as lead impeachment manager for the trial that followed. He did the same for the second impeachment, for inciting the Jan.
A member of the House Judiciary Committee, the Maryland Democrat helped formulate the articles of impeachment that led to Trump’s first impeachment in 2019.
Two impeachments, one attack on the Capitol, and an unfathomable family tragedy later, the result, “Love and the Constitution,” narrates our shared history of the tumultuous last few years through Raskin’s political and personal journey.Ī self-described “disheveled” constitutional law professor, Raskin has been at the center of the country’s most consequential debates since being elected to Congress in 2016. When filmmaker Madeleine Carter approached her friend Jamie Raskin about a documentary, she saw it as the chronicles of a newly elected member of Congress who was a gadfly to President Donald Trump.
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