Many of his colleagues have served in Congress much longer than Raskin, but they have not risen as quickly. His mother, Barbara Raskin, was a journalist and author. His father, the progressive activist Marcus Raskin, served as a young aide to President Kennedy and later played a key role in the anti-Vietnam War movement and the leak of the Pentagon Papers.
“And we can’t let everything be squandered in fits of point-scoring and negative identity politics.”īorn in Washington, D.C., Raskin was raised in a politically active household. “We are the heirs to all of the civilizing movements of the last half-century - the civil rights movement, the human rights movement, the women’s movement, the LGBT movement, the labor movement,” Raskin said. It was a task he approached, he says, through a historical lens. Teaming up with former Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond (D-La.), Raskin brokered a deal on a broad anti-hate resolution, defusing a powder keg that was threatening to tear apart the newly empowered Democratic caucus. She called Raskin at midnight the night before the expected vote, with concern that the caucus consensus on an initial draft “was shaky and fragmenting,” he recalled a week later. His bridge-builder role was designated by Pelosi, who was scrambling to craft an appropriate legislative response that satisfied all sides amid the Omar uproar. He’s also secured a seat this term on the powerful Rules Committee, which shapes every piece of legislation just before it hits the floor. The Maryland Democrat serves on two key committees - Judiciary and Oversight and Reform - that are central in the Democrats’ budding probes. Jamie Raskin, the often-disheveled former constitutional law professor, has carved out one of the most important roles in the House as Democrats contemplate their investigations of President Trump in the wake of the Mueller report.
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