# Jamie Raskin U.S. Representative for Maryland's 8th district since 2017. Constitutional law professor at American University Washington College of Law for 25 years prior to Congress; specialized in the law of presidential power, election law, and the [[Twenty-Fifth Amendment]]. ## The second impeachment Lead author of the article of impeachment ("Incitement of Insurrection") for the [[Trump Second Impeachment]] and **lead House manager** at the Senate trial (February 9–13, 2021). His opening statement was widely cited; he spoke from the chamber his daughter Tabitha and son-in-law Hank had been hiding in during the [[January 6 Capitol Attack]] — the rest of his immediate family had attended the previous day for his son Tommy Raskin's funeral, and were trapped in the Capitol during the attack. Tommy Raskin had died by suicide on December 31, 2020, at age 25; Jamie Raskin's framing of the impeachment work as constitutional duty under personal grief was the most-quoted rhetorical hinge of the trial. ## [[January 6 Select Committee]] Raskin served on the [[House Select Committee on the January 6th Attack]] (2021–2022) — alongside Vice Chair [[Liz Cheney]], [[Adam Kinzinger]], [[Bennie Thompson]] (chair), [[Adam Schiff]], and others. The committee's December 2022 final report was substantially shaped by Raskin's constitutional framing. ## Subsequent role Ranking Democrat on the [[House Judiciary Committee]] since 2025 (after [[Jerry Nadler]] stepped down from Ranking Member). Author of *Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy* (2022), a memoir that interleaves the Tommy Raskin loss with the Capitol attack and impeachment. ## Related - [[Trump Second Impeachment]] - [[Trump Impeachments Timeline]] - [[January 6 Capitol Attack]] - [[Adam Schiff]] — counterpart for first impeachment - [[Jamie Raskin - it's a gangster state]] — the June 16, 2025 line that became the opposition's shorthand for second-term corruption