I'm so proud of Jamie Raskin
...I remember Rep. Raskin from Jesse Jackson's campaign where he served as counsel, and from my own state (representing a county I lived in for years) to boot.
Now, here he is representing the nation against insurrectionists with brilliance and eloquence. His testimony is constitutional poetry. Not surprising, given his background.
Before Jamie got 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 and co-founded the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project.
According to Wiki, the project is 'an educational fellowship program in which law students act as teaching fellows, teaching constitutional law and oral advocacy courses in underserved high schools. Headquartered at the Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project was founded in the fall of 1999 by Professor Jamie Raskin. The program began as a way of addressing civic disengagement and a lack of political participation. The teaching fellows work with teachers, administrators and lawyers to teach high school students their rights as citizens, the strategic benefits of voting, how lawmaking occurs, and other fundamental constitutional processes. High school students in the program have the opportunity to practice their oral advocacy skills in a national moot court competition.'
I've been telling my family for years that Rep. Raskin was a sleeper, someone with the ability to do great things for our state and the nation. He's doing me proud this week.
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... and he has recently experienced the worst thing any parent can imagine, the death of his son by suicide. The other day he told us about his son's funeral, literally the day before the Capital terrorist attacks. What a horrible time for him, and yet he's doing an awesome job.
His segment on the First Amendment was just riveting. 