Raskin campaigning in 2016 with Senator Elizabeth Warren You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.' U.S. On March 1, 2006, during a Maryland State Senate hearing regarding same-sex marriage, Raskin was noted for his response to an opposing lawmaker: 'Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. Raskin helped lead the fight to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland.

Raskin introduced a medical marijuana bill in 2014 that was signed by Governor Martin O'Malley and went into effect in January 2015. Raskin long championed efforts to reform marijuana laws and legalize medical marijuana in Maryland.

A former board member of FairVote, he introduced and sponsored the first bill in the country for the National Popular Vote, a plan for an interstate compact to provide for the first popular presidential election in American history. He was the sponsor of bills advocating the repeal of the death penalty in Maryland, the expansion of the state ignition interlock device program, and the establishment of the legal guidelines for benefit corporations, a type of for-profit corporation that includes a material societal benefit in their bylaws and decision-making processes. Raskin was a strong proponent of liberal issues in the Maryland Senate and worked well with Republicans and moderate Democrats. In 2012, he was named the majority whip for the Senate and was the chairman of the Montgomery County Senate Delegation, chairman of the Select Committee on Ethics Reform, and a member of the Judicial Proceedings Committee. In November 2006, he was elected as a Maryland state senator for district 20, representing parts of Silver Spring and Takoma Park in Montgomery County. Raskin wrote a Washington Post op-ed that strongly condemned the Federal Election Commission and the Commission on Presidential Debates for their decisions. In 1996, he represented Ross Perot regarding Perot's exclusion from the 1996 United States presidential debates. From 1989 to 1990, Raskin served as general counsel for Jesse Jackson's National Rainbow Coalition. program on law and government and co-founded the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project.

Raskin was a constitutional law professor at American University Washington College of Law for more than 25 years, where he taught future fellow impeachment manager Stacey Plaskett. degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts in government with concentration in political theory. Raskin graduated from Georgetown Day School in 1979 at age 16. Kennedy on the National Security Council, co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies, and a progressive activist. His mother was a journalist and novelist, and his father was a former staff aide to President John F. on December 13, 1962, to Barbara (nГ©e Bellman) Raskin and Marcus Raskin. Jamin Ben Raskin was born to a Jewish family in Washington, D.C. 3.4 Party leadership and caucus membership.Prior to his election to Congress, he was a constitutional law professor at American University Washington College of Law, where he co-founded and directed the LL.M. He was also the lead impeachment manager for the second impeachment of President Donald Trump in response to the attack on the U.S.

In Congress, Raskin is the chair of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and the co-chair of the Congressional Freethought Caucus. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Maryland State Senate from 2007 to 2016. The district is located in Montgomery County, an affluent suburban county northwest of Washington, D.C., and extends through rural Frederick County to the Pennsylvania border. representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district since 2017. Jamie Ben Raskin (born December 13, 1962) is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S.

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