Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin is fond of calling his party the Democracy Party and stressing that his constituency is really the small-d democracy now imperiled by the Trump administration’s systematic assault on privacy protections, government agencies, and constitutional principles. Raskin, a former constitutional law professor, has been helping to organize the Democrats’ legal and political counterattack, most recently as a member of the Democratic House caucus’s Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group, focusing on the torrent of crimes and constitutional trespasses authored by the Trump White House. He formerly served as a floor manager of Trump’s second impeachment in 2021, and as a member of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol. He is now the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee. I spoke with Raskin as Congress prepared to recess.
—Chris Lehmann
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