6 attack, and is also working to reform the Electoral College. Raskin now sits on the House select committee investigating the Jan.
JAMIE RASKIN JEWISH DRIVER
In the year since the multiple tragedies, Raskin has written a searing memoir, “Unthinkable,” about the insurrection and his son’s death, which he said is the main driver of his public service. In new memoir, Jamie Raskin recalls chaos and confusion of Jan.He also spoke personally, recounting his promise to his daughter that the Capitol would be safe the next time she visited, and her response, devastating to him, that she never wanted to return. A former professor of constitutional law, Raskin’s robust defense of democracy, though doomed, was moving to many. Though he knew the role might bring death threats and violence, Raskin forged ahead “I personally felt no fear, because the very worst thing that ever could have happened to me had already happened to me,” he told NPR. Yet the Maryland Democrat said he found strength in that trauma, and went on to lead the impeachment effort against then-President Trump, accusing him of inciting the attack. And then the building was attacked, the family forced to hide separately, and Raskin afraid he might lose yet another child in the span of a week. Jamie Raskin was in the Capitol, helping to certify the election his daughter and son-in-law had come along to watch. 6, the day after his son’s funeral, and only a week after his death by suicide, Rep.
Representative Jamie Raskin is comforted by Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, as she leaves a joint session of Congress to count the Electoral College votes of the 2020 presidential election in the House Chamber in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Jan.
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