6 call when the latter questioned the Republican leader's loyalty. Pelosi was not impressed with reports that McCarthy had a profanity-laced response to Trump during a heated Jan. "McCarthy?! I wouldn't trust him any more than I would trust the guy with ram's horns," Raskin recounts Pelosi having said, referring to the " QAnon Shaman" who took part in the Capitol riot. Raskin also talked strategy with Pelosi during a last-minute scramble to potentially call witnesses, including House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy. I saw you up there and I saw myself in it and I'm so proud of you," Raskin recounts Biden, who lost his own son Beau to brain cancer, adding. 10 phone call as the congressman headed to the Capitol for the trial's second day of arguments. "Jamie, I'm calling to tell you that you're a helluva lawyer but you're an even better father," Biden told Raskin in a Feb. 6, present at several key turns in the efforts to ensure that such an attack does not happen again.ĭuring his rendering of the Senate impeachment trial, Raskin takes readers into private conversations with Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as he led his arguments. In some ways, Raskin became one of Democrats' congressional first responders to the events of Jan. The siege propelled Raskin to a new mission as the lead House manager of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment and now as a member of the House select committee investigating the Jan. "So as a congressman and a father of a lost son and two living daughters, I would take a stand, with everything I had left, against that violent catastrophe in the memory and spirit of Tommy Raskin, a person I have, alas, not even begun to properly render in words," Jamie Raskin writes. Raskin writes that "stomach-churning, violent insurrection that desecration of American democracy" would have wrecked Tommy Raskin.
Raskin was ushered away from the chamber, while his daughter and son-in-law went into hiding under a desk in House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's office. Raskin and his relatives were trapped during the attack. This as the family, like the rest of the world, was already struggling against the crushing weight of the pandemic.įor his part, Raskin was helping lead arguments against GOP attempts to overturn President Joe Biden's election, as his youngest daughter, Tabitha, and a son-in-law watched from the House visitor's gallery.Īs Raskin sat in the chamber, it was celebrity Alyssa Milano, a family friend, who alerted the congressman by text that rioters had breached the Capitol. Raskin's book opens in the depths of loss and despair, followed days later by the deadly Jan. "I continue to arraign and prosecute myself for every sign, every clue, I missed," writes Jamie Raskin, a former law professor who is also father to two daughters. A rising legal star, Thomas Bloom Raskin died at the age of 25. On the last day of 2020, Raskin lost his son to suicide. During those proceedings, Raskin stood to argue against Trump’s baseless claims of fraud but also to thank “all my dear, beloved colleagues for all your love and tenderness, which my family will never forget.” He received a lengthy standing ovation.In his memoir Unthinkable, hitting shelves Tuesday, Congressman Jamie Raskin, D-Md., is on a journey - moving through layers of excruciating trauma and grief. The riot at the Capitol took place as lawmakers were certifying Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory over Trump. The Democratic-run House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump, who was acquitted by the Republican-led Senate.
Raskin, a Democrat and former constitutional law professor, helped draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump for his alleged encouragement of the violent mob and led the impeachment prosecution in the Senate. "This book is a labor of love written to capture the dazzling life of a brilliant young man in crisis, who we lost forever, and the struggle to defend a beautiful nation in crisis, a democracy that we still have the chance to save.” “I wrote ‘Unthinkable’ as a way to make sense of two traumatic events in my life," Raskin, 58, said in a statement Wednesday. The book is called “Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy,” which Harper will publish Jan. 6 siege of the Capitol and the tragedy he suffered a week earlier when his 25-year-old son Tommy killed himself.
Jamie Raskin of Maryland is working on a memoir in which he will reflect on the Jan.
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