Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is a member of the Select Committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

The House select committee investigating the insurrection is going prime time with public hearings in June, with the first one set for June 9.

Raskin recently said that “the committee has found evidence of concerted planning and premeditated activity.” While discussing Mike Pence’s role during the attack, he said that the former Vice President “did the right thing” on January 6, and “for doing his work and maintaining his oath, he was driven out of the Capitol, by a mob chanting ‘hang Mike Pence, hang Mike Pence.'”

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Here are some facts to know about Jamie Raskin:

Raskin has been serving as the US representative for Maryland’s 8th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Maryland State Senate from 2007 to 2016. In Congress, Raskin is the chair of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and the co-chair of the Congressional Freethought Caucus.

He was also the lead impeachment manager for the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump in response to the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Before being elected to Congress, he was a constitutional law professor at American University Washington College of Law. At the facility, he co-founded and directed the LL.M. program on law and government and co-founded the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project.

Raskin was born to a Jewish family in Washington, D.C. on December 13, 1962, to Barbara (née Bellman) Raskin (journalist and novelist) and Marcus Raskin (a former staff aide to President John F. Kennedy on the National Security Council).

Raskin graduated from Georgetown Day School in 1979 at age 16. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts in government with concentration in political theory.

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In 1987, he received a J.D. degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

From 1989 to 1990, Raskin served as general counsel for Jesse Jackson’s National Rainbow Coalition.

In November 2006, he was elected as a Maryland state senator for district 20, representing parts of Silver Spring and Takoma Park in Montgomery County. In 2012, he was named the majority whip for the Senate and was the chairman of the Montgomery County Senate Delegation, chairman of the Select Committee on Ethics Reform, and a member of the Judicial Proceedings Committee.

Raskin is married to Sarah Bloom Raskin, who served as the Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation from 2007 to 2010.

They have two adult daughters, Hannah and Tabitha, and had a son, Thomas. On December 31, 2020, their son died by suicide at the age of 25.