Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., on Sunday acknowledged that there are “very honest, and serious and rigorous conversations taking place” in the Democratic Party following President Joe Biden’s dismal performance at the presidential debate on Thursday. Raskin’s remarks are a break from what most top Democrats have said publicly in their defense of the president as […]
As the Supreme Court cloaked itself in the reputational disaster of yet another personal scandal and the close of the term offered an array of perilous new developments in all sorts of corners of the law, Rep. Jamie Raskin joined Dahlia Lithwick for a special live taping of Amicus. They talked about Supreme Court capture, […]
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (R-Md.) called the recent verbal battle in his committee sparked by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) words “a failure of leadership.” “So, this was a failure of leadership,” Raskin said on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” Friday. “When the chairman of the committee declined simply to rule […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, says it’s “worth investigating” whether lawmakers were drinking during Thursday’s explosive hearing, after rumors circulated that noncommittee members were intoxicated. “I didn’t see the drinking by the gentlelady from New Mexico, Melanie Stansbury raised it, she said there are members drinking […]
(The Hill) – Rep. Jaime Raskin (Md.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, says it’s “worth investigating” whether lawmakers were drinking during Thursday’s explosive hearing, after rumors circulated that non-committee members were intoxicated. “I didn’t see the drinking by the gentlelady from New Mexico, Melanie Stansbury raised it, she said there […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) suggested that the Republican National Committee headquarters could house the Supreme Court after conservative justices appeared open to recognizing some form of presidential immunity as it heard from former President Donald Trump’s lawyers on Thursday. Raskin, in an appearance on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” weighed in after Trump lawyer D. John Sauer […]
Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and James Comer (R-KY) got into a nasty screaming match Wednesday, talking over each other while asserting that the other needs therapy. The spat occurred during a House Oversight Committee hearing on China, during which Raskin took issue with Republicans accusing Joe Biden of accepting bribes—unfounded allegations that remain at the […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) went after the Republican witnesses at Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing on the Biden family’s business dealings. “Even Hunter Biden, laboring at the time under a serious substance abuse addiction, could tell these were not the type of people he should be doing business with. So rather than representing the Biden […]
The Republican party under Donald Trump has become “a cult of authoritarian personality in league with autocrats and kleptocrats and dictators”, the prominent Democrat Jamie Raskin said, as the former US president saw off Nikki Haley, his last rival for the presidential nomination, and finally won the support of Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) railed against the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to take up Donald Trump’s argument that he is immune from prosecution for actions he took while president, urging the Court to move rapidly on a decision. “This was an obvious case not to take up, and just let the D.C. Circuit Court ruling […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) demanded former President Donald Trump return the $7.8 million foreign governments paid to his company while he served as president in a letter released on Friday. “I write today to demand that you immediately return to the American people the $7,886,072 that we know you have accepted from foreign governments in […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin, the House Oversight Committee’s ranking Democrat, said on Sunday that he believes Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should recuse himself if the high court decides to hear cases regarding decisions in some states on whether to remove Donald Trump from primary ballots in 2024. The Maryland Democrat’s remarks came after officials in […]