3 children: Hannah, Tommy (deceased), Tabitha. Congressman Raskin is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and a former Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Jamie Raskin - D Maryland, 8th, In Office, including dates served, biography, salaries paid. He has authored several books, including the Washington Post bestseller Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court versus the American People and the highly acclaimed We the Students: Supreme Court Cases For and About America’s Students. 31, 2020, at the age of 25 after struggling with mental illness. He was also a professor of constitutional law at American University’s Washington College of Law for more than 25 years. Raskin’s son, Tommy, died by suicide on Dec. Prior to his time in Congress, Raskin was a three-term State Senator in Maryland and the Senate Majority Whip. On New Years Eve 2020, his son Tommy, 25, died by suicide after years of fighting mental illness. In his searing memoir, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life-and his family’s-as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation’s Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence.Ĭongressman Jamie Raskin has proudly represented Maryland’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), Sarah Bloom Raskin, and their children Thomas, Hannah and Tabitha.
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