But Congressman Raskin's someone who I've always looked at as a really remarkable public servant at least in the capacity that I've known him, and a really interesting guy. And they really run the gamut in the sort of depth of their thoughtfulness, (LAUGH) the life experiences they've had, the politics. And you learn a lot from different politicians. And, you know, I meet a lot of politicians. The two of were both law professors before they sort of entered public life.Īnd Jamie Raskin's just a really fascinating guy. His wife, Sarah Bloom Raskin, worked at the Treasury Department. I sort of knew of Jamie Raskin even before he was a member of Congress, when he was a state legislator. He drafted the articles of impeachment along with others who were part of that effort. He was the lead impeachment manager for the second impeachment of Donald Trump, the impeachment for leading and inciting the insurrection. He represents Maryland's 9th Congressional District in the U.S. One of the sort of clearest voices on the dangers of what happened January 6th, and more broadly one of the voices in politics I find to best combine deep knowledge with human empathy and a historical sensibility is Congressman Jamie Raskin. There's an accelerating investigation of course from the select committee, a lot of meditations on the meaning of that day, which is as profoundly and proximate a threat to American democracy and the way that we conceive of it in the modern era as anything that I have experienced certainly in my lifetime. You have probably seen a lot of the January 6th one-year anniversary coverage in lots of places on our program All In With Chris Hayes which is weekends on MSNBC, across all kinds of media platforms. And we can have a renewal of our country.Ĭhris Hayes: Hello, and welcome to Why Is This Happening we me, your host, Chris Hayes. "Well my goodness, it's a horrible thing, what he went through, but it doesn't change the fact of, uh, his political beliefs," she said, "and I believe he's a communist and I believe what he's doing on the January 6th Committee is completely wrong.Jamie Raskin: The road to rebuilding for America is through honest reckoning with the traumas we've experienced and then building beyond that. Greene then stated the quiet part out loud. And the country shouldn't have to go through all that with him." "And I do think it clouds his judgment and you could see that, that very darkness and that pain manifest on Thursday in a way that's not particularly relevant to the challenges that we've talked about, but it might be deeply relevant to what he's going through. "But I think for Jamie Raskin, it's really like, his service in the Congress has almost become like inextricably attached to this sad personal trauma he's had," Gaetz proclaimed. "And we want to vindicate the rights of our citizens and we want to champion their causes and battle their dislikes," Gaetz remarked. "We're not here out of a sense of grievance or hatred. "Well and we love this country," Gaetz added. "We're here to serve the people," Greene interjected. "You know, we try to come to the job to uplift people," Gaetz resumed. But I think that he takes that trauma and he associates it now with his work in the Congress to such an interwoven way that he's unable to do the congressional experience outside of just the dungeon of that personal trauma," Gaetz continued, "and I think it makes him look at everything in these very like, dark and severe ways." "As human beings, our hearts go out to him. And what I worry about for the Congress and for Jamie Raskin, you know, no one would ever want to lose a child, particularly to suicide," said Gaetz. "When people encounter trauma, they often associate a lot of the other things around that trauma with it, even if they don't naturally or even rationally associate. Now, with just 24 hours remaining before public hearings revealing what the bipartisan congressional commission has found begin, Gaetz and Greene have launched a new and unusually cruel offensive against Raskin. Raskin also sits on the Select Committee investigating the attack, which was triggered (at least in part) by Republican lawmakers refusing to acknowledge President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election at Trump's behest. Raskin served as the House of Representatives' manager of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment for inciting the January 6th, 2021 Capitol insurrection. United States Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) appeared on a recent edition of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia)'s podcast and suggested that Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) is unable to do his job because his son committed suicide. This article originally appeared on AlterNet.
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