Jamie Raskin
U.S. Representative for Maryland
Jamin Ben Raskin was born in December 1962 in Washington, D.C. He earned an undergraduate degree in government and political theory from Harvard College and received a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.
Raskin was a constitutional law professor at American University Washington College of Law for more than 25 years. He was elected as a state senator in the Maryland legislature, serving nine years before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, assuming office in January 2017.
He is married to Sarah Bloom Raskin and they have two adult daughters, and they also had a son who is now deceased. He is Jewish.
In the News…
Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, is reintroducing legislation to create a commission that would oversee the removal of the president under the 25th Amendment.
The proposed 17-person commission’s purpose would be to evaluate President Trump’s fitness for office and recommend whether or not to remove him under Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, which allows the Vice President and a Cabinet majority to declare a president “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
“There’s obviously tremendous anxiety in the country about the… conduct and behavior of the President,” Congressman Raskin said, while acknowledging the reality that his party is in the minority. “For people to say we should just go ahead and impeach him simply denies this political reality. There is not a single [member of the majority] who has called for impeachment or indicated to us interest in impeachment at this point.”
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The Honorable Jamie Raskin
Representative for Maryland
2242 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
