![]() ![]() He quickly earned a reputation for building coalitions in Annapolis, and delivered a series of landmark legislative accomplishments.Ĭongressman Raskin is a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School. Prior to his time in Congress, Jamie was a three-term State Senator in Maryland, where he also served as the Senate Majority Whip. He authored several books, including the Washington Post best-seller Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court versus the American People and the highly-acclaimed We the Students: Supreme Court Cases For and About America’s Students, which has sold more than 50,000 copies. Raskin is the Freshman Representative on the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, the Congressional Progressive Caucus Vice Chair and Liaison to New Members, and a Senior Whip for the House Democratic Caucus.įor more than 25 years, Congressman Raskin has been a professor of constitutional law at American University’s Washington College of Law. He also serves on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and the Committee on House Administration. Raskin was sworn in to the 115th Congress on January 3, 2017.Ĭongressman Raskin is the Vice-Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and serves on two Judiciary subcommittees: the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice and the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigation. The district includes parts of Montgomery, Carroll, and Frederick Counties. He was awarded the Secular Coalition for America’s National Visibility Award at the 2017 Secular Awards Dinner, when he was a serving as a State Senator in the Maryland legislature.Ĭongressman Jamie Raskin proudly represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. Unitarian Universalist Humanist AssociationĬongressman Jamie Raskin is an original co-founder of the Congressional Freethought Caucus.Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers. ![]() Cultural and Secular Jewish Organization. ![]()
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