Jamie Raskin’s Failure to Resist Trump
Rep. Jamie Raskin is set to be the top Democrat resisting Donald Trump and defending democracy on a key committee — less than a year after handing him expanded spying powers.
Representative Jamie Raskin questions US Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle during a House Oversight Committee hearing examining potential security failures surrounding the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, July 22, 2024. (Chris Kleponis / AFP via Getty Images)
To hear him tell it, Rep. Jamie Raskin is running to be the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee to protect democracy.
“We are in the fight of our lives. The stakes have gone up since the election,” he wrote to his fellow Democrats this week. With Donald Trump in the White House, he and House Democrats as a whole were duty bound to “defend our nation against tyranny” and to “stand in the breach to defend the principles and institutions of constitutional democracy.”
“We dare not fail,” he warned.
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