Jamie Raskin represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District in the House of Representatives. He 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. For more than twenty-five years, Congressman Raskin has been a professor of constitutional law at American University’s Washington College of Law. He authored several books, including the Washington Post bestseller “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.”

“What we (the Democrats) need to do is to put our agenda forward in terms of defending Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid against their clear effort to pay for their (the Republicans) atrocious tax legislation – which was a trillion and a half dollar giveaway to special interests – by cutting people’s benefits… We’ve got to advance the minimum wage and fight for that in order to give America a raise. And we’ve got to remind everybody that they are not anti-regulation. They would love to regulate the poor in a way that would give them no access to their nutritional benefits. They would love to regulate women’s healthcare, so women and their families would not have access to Planned Parenthood.” Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin