“Congressman Raskin’s memoir speaks to the tenacity of the human spirit through devastation and trauma,” said Lisa Sharkey, a HarperCollins executive who acquired the book.
A former constitutional law professor at American University, he is often Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Democrats’ go-to guy for complex legal and ethics questions.īut during the impeachment trial, it was Raskin’s ability to weave his personal grief over his son’s sudden death with Trump’s push to overturn the election and overthrow democracy that captivated Washington and the nation. In just a few short years in Congress, Raskin has emerged as one of the most well-respected legal scholars in Washington. “This book is a labor of love written to capture the dazzling life of a brilliant young man in crisis, who we lost forever, and the struggle to defend a beautiful nation in crisis, a democracy that we still have the chance to save.” Capitol incited by Donald Trump and calculated to overthrow the 2020 presidential election,” Raskin said in a statement Wednesday. “I wrote UNTHINKABLE as a way to make sense of two traumatic events in my life, the shattering loss of our son Tommy to depression on the last day of 2020 and, one week later, the bloody Januinsurrection at the U.S. 4, just two days before the first anniversary of the Capitol insurrection. It will be published by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, on Jan. 6, surviving the deadly Capitol insurrection with his daughter and son-in-law, drafting two articles of impeachment against former President Trump for his role in the riot and leading the Democrats’ ultimately unsuccessful prosecution of the 45th president in his second Senate impeachment trial. In “Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy,” Raskin opens up about losing his 25-year-old son Tommy to suicide on New Year’s Eve, defending the results of the 2020 election on the House floor on Jan. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) is writing a memoir about the tragic and historic first 45 days of 2021 that forever altered the lives of him and his family members. But I did it, really, with my son in my heart and helping lead the way. “She’s actually been very sensitive and thoughtful, but she wanted me to do it because she knows that I’ve devoted my life to the constitution and to the republic. “I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to say no to Speaker Pelosi about anything,” he said with a grin. Raskin joked that when Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked him to be impeachment manager, he couldn’t refuse. There was an attack on our country, there was an attack on our people.” “When we went to count the electoral college votes and came under that ludicrous attack, I felt my son with me, and I was most concerned with our youngest daughter and my son-in-law - who is married to our other daughter - who were with me that day and who got caught in a room off of the House floor,” he said. #CNNSOTU /PFPn9X4oicĪs difficult as losing his son has been, Raskin said that Tommy’s death has only increased his resolve to lead the impeachment trial, and his son was on his mind as he and members of his family hid from Trump supporters that attacked the U.S. Jamie Raskin says as he presses forward with impeachment articles while mourning his son. "I'm not going to lose my son at the end of 2020 and lose my country and my republic in 2021," Rep. Hear Raskin’s touching story in the clip below. We lost him on the very last day of that God-awful year, 2020, and he left us a note, which said ‘Please forgive me, my illness won today, look after each other, the animals and the global poor for me, all my love Tommy.'” “He had overwhelming love for humanity and for our country, in his heart, and really for all the people of the world. “Tommy was a remarkable person,” Raskin said. Raskin announced the death of his 25-year-old son, Tommy, on New Year’s Eve, saying that he had been experiencing chronic depression in recent years and that it became “a kind of relentless torture in the brain for him.”
“I’m not going to lose my son at the end of 2020 and lose my country and my republic in 2021,” he told Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
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Jamie Raskin on CNN turned emotional, as the Maryland politician exposed his raw personal feeling about leading the second impeachment trial just weeks after losing his son to suicide.
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