“He didn’t have anything in there about take some time off.” But Raskin said he’s taken his son’s departing message to heart to help him push forward.
Raskin would have been forgiven for stepping away after his son’s death, even with his role defending the Electoral College a week away. Please look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me. “He left us this farewell note on New Year’s Eve day: ‘Please forgive me. In his 20s, Tommy suffered from “a blindingly painful and merciless ‘disease called depression,’” Raskin and his wife wrote. Jamie Raskin honors late son in emotional tribute: 'A radiant light in this broken world' Tommy was “an anti-war activist, a badass autodidact moral philosopher and progressive humanist libertarian, and a passionate vegan,” they said. After Tommy’s death, Raskin and his wife, Sarah Bloom Raskin, wrote a moving tribute to Tommy and all the people he had inspired. Lawmakers and aides who have worked closely with Raskin say that Tommy’s memory has provided a kind of fuel for the congressman to keep going through hours-long prep sessions, votes and floor debates. Raskin has tried his best to keep focused on the task in front of him since his son’s death.
Many Republicans have already argued that a former President can’t be convicted once he’s out of office – which Democrats and many legal experts say is not the case. And it’s not clear that any case – no matter how it is prepared – would be enough to convince them. Seventeen Republican senators would have to vote to convict Trump to keep him from ever running for office again. Raskin’s success in making a case to Republicans remains to be seen. “It was also something I had to discuss with my family. “It’s a solemn, awesome ability,” Raskin said of his role. They walked onto the floor of the Senate, and Raskin read aloud the single article of impeachment on the floor: incitement of insurrection. On Monday evening, Raskin led the nine impeachment managers across the same corridor in the Capitol that had been filled with ransacking rioters earlier this month. Jamie Raskin speaks as the House debates the objection to confirm the Electoral College vote from Pennsylvania, early in the morning of January 7. “These people have poisoned something precious in our political system,” he said, “and we have to recapture and defend democracy with everything we have.” Raskin paused for a long moment, collecting his thoughts. I hugged them and said to Tabitha, ‘I promise it wouldn’t be like this the next time you come to the Capitol.’ And she said, ‘Dad there isn’t gonna be a next time.’” “After an extremely long and dreadful day I was able to send Tabitha and Hank home after 9:30 or 10 p.m. “I picked a helluva time for take your daughter to work day,” Raskin said, recalling the events of January 6. The events that led to the President’s second impeachment are personal to Raskin. Raskin was one of the Democrats House Speaker Nancy Pelosi picked to defend the certification of Biden’s victory, and following the House’s impeachment of former President Donald Trump for inciting the insurrection at the Capitol, Pelosi named him as the House’s lead impeachment manager.
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The ordeal only added to the trauma that the Raskin family has endured since his son Tommy died by suicide on December 31.įor Raskin, the unimaginable personal tragedy is coming at the exact moment of his biggest professional triumph in Congress.
It was roughly an hour before Capitol Police rescued them and they were reunited with Raskin, he said in a wide-ranging interview. Raskin’s chief of staff, Julie Tagen, who was with Tabitha and Hank, barricaded the door and grabbed a bronze bust as a weapon in case anyone broke in. Now his family was in danger, hiding in Majority Whip Steny Hoyer’s ceremonial office as insurrectionists surrounded the House chamber. Raskin’s daughter Tabitha, 23, and his oldest daughter’s husband, Hank, had accompanied the Maryland Democrat to the Capitol that Wednesday to watch as he defended President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College win on the House floor. Just a day earlier, Raskin’s family had buried his 25-year-old son, Tommy. Jamie Raskin fled the House chamber on January 6 alongside his colleagues as a mob was gaining on the Capitol, but his mind was focused on the office down the hall where his daughter and son-in-law were in hiding.
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