You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible. Jamie Raskin leads fellow House Impeachment Managers after delivering the articles of impeachment to the Senate, Jan. Raskin once told a Republican state senator in Maryland: “When you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. Pete Buttigieg is a fine exception to the antique brigade but what are the chances of Americans electing a gay man? On that subject, here’s what Mr. In a party dominated by old voices that people are tired of hearing, he is a fresh source of principle and conviction. Raskin, 59, is well-placed if not for a run for the Democratic nomination (though he’ll likely start appearing on short lists soon) then as Speaker of the House if Democrats retain a majority in it. You dare not speak truth to power in that party.īut Mr. In the Wyoming GOP primary, which is less than a month away, polls show her trailing challenger Harriet Hageman – who is supported by the party establishment – by about 20 points. Raskin has emerged as a new star in his party and a bright hope in a country so badly in need of rescuers.įor her valiant work, Liz Cheney is about to lose her seat in Congress. The phrase, he said, turned out to be an “ excellent prophecy of what his rage would come to visit on our people.” American carnage, he said, is the former president’s “true legacy.”Īs the towering moral force at the hearings, Mr. Trump’s talk of American carnage in his inaugural address. In his riveting closing statement at the hearings last week, he recalled Mr. Raskin and the others have filled the void. As committee member Adam Schiff put it, “It is unprecedented for Congress to be so far out ahead of the Justice Department in a complex investigation.” Why, he said, have they not talked to the key witnesses that the committee has? Though hundreds who took part in the insurrection have been charged, the Justice Department has, thus far, not gone after those who were involved from within the White House. Raskin and committee members such as Liz Cheney on the Republican side, so much of what happened could well have remained hidden. 6 select committee, investigating a cataclysm that, he noted, makes the Watergate break-in look like “a Cub Scout meeting.” In recent months, he’s also had a pre-eminent role on the Jan. His words, given what he’d been through, bore visceral power. Despite his emotionally devastated condition, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saw him as the best choice to spearhead impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. A former constitutional law professor, he had previously led a House committee through a five-year probe of domestic terrorism and white nationalists. In confronting both a horrendous personal tragedy and an inconceivable national one, Mr.
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