Jamin Ben \”Jamie\” Raskin is an American author and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Maryland’s 8th congressional district. He was previously a member of the Maryland State Senate from 2007 to 2016. He is the son of progressive activist Marcus Rasksin, a former staff aide to President John F. Kennedy on the National Security Council.
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Jamin Ben \”Jamie\” Raskin is an American author and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Maryland’s 8th congressional district since 2017. He was previously a member of the Maryland State Senate from 2007 to 2016. 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. program on Law and Government. He is the son of progressive activist Marcus Rasksin, a former staff aide to President John F. Kennedy on the National Security Council and co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies. He graduated from Georgetown Day School in 1979, and received a B. A. from Harvard College in 1983 and a J. D. from Harvard Law School in 1987. He served as general counsel for Jesse Jackson’s National Rainbow Coalition from 1989 to 1990, and represented Ross Perot in 1996 when Perot sued over being excluded from the Presidential Debates.
He helped lead the fight to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland. 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. In June 2017, he objected to legislation to establish a congressional commission with authority to declare the election of Donald Trump as president because of Russian interference in the election and voter suppression efforts. He opposed the legislation because it had to be sponsored by at least one member of each chamber and it had no late sponsor.
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