Jamie B. Raskin

Jamie Raskin represents Maryland's eighth congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 2021, he was the lead impeachment manager in the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, which ended in the United States Senate by a vote of 57 to 43, ten votes short of the required two-thirds majority. Raskin is a member of the House Judiciary Committee, the Rules Committee, the Oversight and Reform Committee, and the Administration Committee. He is also a member of the new special committee investigating the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol. As a former majority leader in the Maryland State Senate, where he served for ten years, Raskin successfully fought for marriage equality, the abolition of the death penalty, the adoption of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (*) , an agreement between various U.S. states regarding the mode of presidential election, and dozens of other progressive changes in his state.

Raskin is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School , where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review . For twenty-five years, he taught as a professor of constitutional law at American University Washington College of Law . He is the author of several books, including We the Students: Supreme Court Cases for and about Students and Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court vs. the American People . Raskin is vice chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and director of Democracy Summer , a nationwide program that trains young people in political activism and leadership skills. With his wife, Sarah, he has three children: Hannah Grace, Thomas Bloom (1995-2020), and Tabitha Claire. Jamie and Sarah live in Takoma Park, Maryland, along with their dogs, Toby and Potter.