Join the JCRC of Greater Washington for a national Jewish community Zoom webinar with Congressman Jamie Raskin to discuss his new book, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
Interviewed by:
Thorn L. Pozen, Partner, Goldblatt Martin Pozen LLP and JCRC Vice President
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Speaker
Congressman Jamie Raskin U.S. Representative, MD-8
Congressman Jamie Raskin is the U.S. Representative for Maryland’s 8th District. He was a professor of constitutional law for more than a quarter-century at American University Washington College of Law before entering Congress and has published several books, including the Washington Post Bestseller Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court versus the American People and We the Students: Supreme Court Cases about America’s Students, and dozens of scholarly articles and essays. He recently wrote a proposed new state song for Maryland called “Maryland My Maryland (the Free State Song)” to replace Maryland’s controversial pro-Confederate anthem.
Congressman Raskin is currently serving his second term on the House Judiciary, House Oversight, and House Administration Committees. He also serves on the Rules Committee and is an elected Member of the House Democratic Leadership Team. He also serves on the new Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.
Prior to his time in Congress, Raskin was a three-term State Senator in Maryland, where he served as Senate Majority Whip. He earned a reputation for building coalitions in Annapolis to deliver a series of landmark legislative accomplishments, including marriage equality, abolition of the death penalty, decriminalization of marijuana, strong equal pay for equal work legislation, and several pieces of strong anti-drunk driving legislation, including the compulsory ignition interlock device for convicted drunk drivers.
Congressman Raskin is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he served as an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He and his wife Sarah Bloom Raskin, a former Governor of the Federal Reserve Board and the former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Department under President Obama, live in Takoma Park with their dogs, Potter and Toby. They have three grown children.