Jamie Raskin
US Representative (D-MD 8th District)
US House of Representatives

Congressman Jamie Raskin is the US Representative for Maryland’s 8th Congressional District. He serves as the ranking member on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, his fourth term on the committee. He served as the lead house manager in the second Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, which ended with a 57-43 vote to convict the president for inciting a violent insurrection against the government to overthrow the 2020 presidential election. Raskin served on the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th attack on the US Capitol, served three terms on the House Judiciary Committee and the Committee on House Administration, and served two terms on the Rules Committee and the Coronavirus Select Subcommittee. Prior to Congress, Raskin was a three-term state senator in Maryland and a professor of constitutional law for more than a quarter-century at American University Washington College of Law. He 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 has authored several books, including We the Students (2008), the Washington Post best-seller Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court versus the American People (2003), and The New York Times number #1 best-seller Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth and the Trials of American Democracy (2022).

Jamie Raskin