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đ¨ INSANE: Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin says he opposes President Trump cracking down on crime because "crime has always been part of our history."
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Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Friday on MSNBCâs âDeadlineâ that Democrats had to âfight like hellâ to take the government back from President Donald Trump. Raskin said, âWe got to take the government back from all of the grifters and autocrats and dictators and people who are just trashing the basic values of the country, whether weâre talking about a professional civil service, whether weâre talking about due process, which is what separates the rights and freedoms of the people from arbitrary governmental power and dictatorship, whether weâre talking about free speech or free press. You know, there kicking the...
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* Co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies * Was associated with the Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s Marcus Raskin was born April 30, 1934 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the second son of Russian Jewish immigrants. At age 16, he left home to study piano at New Yorkâs Juilliard School. In 1954 Raskin graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA in liberal arts, and three years later he earned a JD from the University of Chicago Law School. In 1958 he moved to Washington, D.C. to serve as legislative counsel to a group of Democratic congressmen....
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Rep. Jamie Raskin threatened foreign leaders who âfacilitated authoritarianism in our countryâ by currying favor with President Trump on issues like deportation â saying that Democrats will not âlook kindlyâ on his supporters when they âcome back to power.â Referencing El Salvadorâs President Nayib Bukele specifically, Raskin (D-Md.), 62, suggested that Dems should keep score of foreign leaders who brownnose Trump, 78, during his second term. âImplicit in it should be the idea that if and when we come back to power â and we will â we are not going to look kindly upon people who ⌠facilitated authoritarianism...
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Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed Wednesday on CNNâs âNews Centralâ â that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg was a âgreat judicial heroâ for finding probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for disobeying his order to halt deportations. Raskin said, âJudge Boasberg goes to great pains to restate the precedent going back to 1967, Walker vs. Birmingham, holding that youâve got to comply with a court order, even if you know, they were in the wrong court, even if for some reason thereâs a change. Look, Judge Boasberg, who was a President Bush appointee when he originally...
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Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin is demanding the return of the Venezuelan gangsters to the United States. In an obvious of how little Democrats care about protecting Americaâs borders, Raskin said during a hearing that the hundreds of Venezuelan gangsters deported from the U.S. to a prison in El Salvador should be returned immediately. âI call on my colleagues to demand that the Trump Administration comply with all judicial orders while appealing whichever ones they want to appeal, and to demand the return of people unlawfully taken to El Salvador on that so-called plane full of âgang bangers,ââ Raskin said at...
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If you want to seize private data from the people and conduct a political hatchet job, call Elon Musk and his night crew of juvenile computer hackers.
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Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed Thursday on CNNâs âThe Situation Roomâ that the Republican Party has become the âcorruption partyâ with Elon Musk being the leading agent. Raskin said, âWhoever is left within the vague hemisphere of Trump world who believes in the rule of law will not be able to last because they put corruption first. They are the corruption party at this point. You know, they wiped out the inspectors general. They fired 17 of them illegally without notifying Congress. They have to come to us 30 days before they have to specifically set forth the rationale for...
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Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed Friday on MSNBCâs âThe ReidOutâ that Elon Musk and President Donald Trump were conducting a ârapidly expanding and accelerating coup.â Raskin said, âIf the courts move with dispatch, they might be able to prevent a lot of damage from being inflicted. But nobody should normalize whatâs going on here. Weâve got the wealthiest man in the world who cannot be president because he was born in apartheid South Africa and then made his way to Canada and then to America because he canât be president, except if he can buy himself a de facto presidency...
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Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed Sunday on MSNBCâs âInsideâ that ânobody in the civil service can be fired because of political reasons.â Raskin said, âThe attack on the FBI is extraordinary because for decades it really has been an apolitical operation. There are Republicans who work there, Independents, Democrats. Theyâve served all administrations. and now, just because they were assigned to work on the most massive attack on the U.S. Capitol in American history and to prosecute cop assaulters theyâre being fired or theyâre being investigated. So thereâs this mass purge taking place, obviously, coming from the top. What their...
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Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Tuesday on CNNâs âOutFrontâ that President Donald Trumpâs pardoning the January 6 protesters was to create a âreserve army of political foot soldiers.â Raskin said, âThe question is why? Pardons have generally been used when people are actually innocent or there was some procedural miscarriage of justice. Nobodyâs claiming that these people were innocent. Weâve got them on tape, you know, hitting the police officers over the head with pipes and bats and Confederate battle flags and all of thatâs been established. Most of them pled guilty. The others have been convicted. There was no...
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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a former member of the Jan. 6 committee, sought to distinguish between the pardon he received from former President Biden compared to those President Trump gave to those who stormed the Capitol. Just hours apart, both Biden and Trump issued a number of pardons. An order from Biden gave a preemptive pardon to all nine members of the panel that investigated the attack on the Capitol, while Trump, through a series of pardons and commutations, cleared the slate for the more than 1,500 people being prosecuted for the attack. âLook, the people who were pardoned the...
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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said Democrats are in âthe fight of our livesâ following President-elect Trumpâs victory in the 2024 election. âWeâre not gonna change our values,â Raskin said on âAll in with Chris Hayesâ on Wednesday. âWeâre not gonna abandon American constitutional democracy because we lost an election by ⌠1 and a half percent. Weâre not gonna abandon the rule of law.â âWeâre gonna be recruiting and mobilizing hundreds of thousands and millions of more people to get out there and be leaders in this fight,â he added. âWhat else can we do? This is not a game...
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Burisma Holdings founder Mykola Zlochevsky, who allegedly paid a total of $10 million in bribes to Joe and Hunter Biden in 2015 and 2016 in exchange for then-Vice President Joe Bidenâs assistance in getting Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired, is believed to be an asset of Russiaâs Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) by the United States intelligence community, according to a national security source speaking to RedState on condition of anonymity. The official said:
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Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Sunday on CNNâs âState of the Unionâ that the term âdeep Stateâ refers to President-elect Donald Trumpâs selection of Kash Patel to head the FBI because his objective is reforming the institution. Guest host Kasie Hunt said, âDo you think there are any issues inside the FBI around politicization, as many who voted for Donald Trump seem to say?â Raskin said, âWell, undoubtedly, if you look at it historically, for example, during the COINTELPRO period the FBI really was weaponized against Doctor King and the Civil Rights Movement and the Peace Movement. There was, you...
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House Democrats on Friday accused former President Donald J. Trump of accepting âhundreds of unconstitutional and ethically suspect paymentsâ through the Trump International Hotel in 2017 and 2018, moving weeks before the election to remind voters of the ethical issues raised by his refusal to divest from his businesses while in office. The 58-page report from Democrats on the Oversight Committee includes their final findings in a yearslong investigation digging into the Trump Organizationâs management of the hotel. It accuses Mr. Trump of ripping off the Secret Service by charging the agency exorbitant rates and of inappropriately accepting payments from...
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Rep Jamie Raskin says Congress will stop Donald Trump on Jan 6, 2025 using the 14th Amendment and create âcivil war conditionsâ
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emocrat Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) followed the strategy of his colleagues and the establishment media in touting former President Donald Trump as a âconvicted felon,â slyly making the mention during Dr. Anthony Fauciâs testimony before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Monday. Raskin defended Fauci at the beginning of the hearing, asking Fauci if he has spent his entire life âtrying to determine the causes of infectious diseasesâ and stop them from affecting the American people. âYes, I have,â Fauci responded. âWell, Dr. Fauci. I want to join my colleague from Florida and apologize that some of our...
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Top Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin argued in the New York Times this week that Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito could, in theory, be forced to step down from cases related to the January 6 Capitol riots. In a guest essay for the New York Times on Wednesday, Raskin detailed ways Thomas and Alito could be forced to recuse themselves from the upcoming Trump v. United States and Fischer v. United States, both involving former President Trump's role during the Capitol protests. "Of course, Justices Alito and Thomas could choose to recuse themselves â wouldnât that be nice? But begging...
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Representative Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, on Monday said he's working with colleagues on legislation that could bar someone who committed insurrection from holding office. Raskin made the announcement after the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that former President Donald Trump should appear on the primary ballot in states that have challenged his presidential candidacy. "I'm working with a number of my colleaguesâincluding [Democratic Representatives] Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eric Swalwellâto revive legislation...to set up a process by which we could determine that someone who committed insurrection is disqualified by section three of the 14th amendment," Raskin said during an appearance...
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