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Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Tuesday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that the Supreme Court unanimously overturning a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that disqualified former President Donald Trump from the ballot was SCOTUS punting. Raskin said, “The, court didn’t exactly disagree with it. They just said that they’re not the ones to figure it out. It’s not going to be a matter for judicial resolution under Section Three of the 14th Amendment, but it’s up to Congress to enforce it. I disagree with that interpretation just because the other parts of the 14th Amendment are self executing. People can go to court...

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee said Wednesday that the Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President Biden has been demolished by new revelations that Russia might have played a role in drumming up false allegations about the president’s finances. “The impeachment investigation essentially ended yesterday, in substance if not in form, with the explosive revelation that Mr. Smirnov’s allegations about Ukrainian Burisma payments to Joe Biden were concocted along with Russian intelligence agents,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told reporters in Washington. Republicans have leaned heavily on the declarations of Alexander Smirnov, a former FBI informant who alleged that Biden...

The Supreme Court has announced it will consider Donald Trump’s appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to bar him from the state’s ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) tells MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart that the question the Justices have to answer is: “are we going to follow the Constitution?”

House Oversight Democrat quietly meeting with GOP lawmakers in effort to quash impeachment inquiry: sources Raskin's efforts come ahead of a House meeting to consider a resolution to formalize the impeachment inquiry framework. EXCLUSIVE: The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee has been informally meeting with Republicans behind closed doors in an effort to persuade them to abandon the impeachment effort against President Biden, as GOP lawmakers prepare to vote to formalize the inquiry, Fox News Digital has learned. Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., has been quietly discussing impeachment with House Republicans with whom he has close relationships,...

House Oversight Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) on Monday dismissed an allegation that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating President Joe Biden for taking a $5 million bribe from a Ukrainian energy company despite the FBI saying otherwise. Despite clear evidence that the Biden family took in millions of dollars during and after Joe Biden’s vice presidency, as well as credible allegations of bribery, Raskin has consistently tried to discredit the House’s probe. In a letter to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY), Raskin accused the chairman of “promot[ing] baseless accusations, going so far as to tell Fox...