Jamie Raskin

Jamie Raskin learned piano by watching and listening to his father, a concert pianist, and developed a taste for blues and jazz.¹ He has also described playing a chess game with Garry Kasparov.¹ He met his wife, Sarah, at Harvard Law; they raised three children and live in Takoma Park with their dogs, Toby and Potter.²

Raskin graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the law review.³ He spent more than 25 years teaching constitutional law at American University's Washington College of Law and helped launch the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project.² His books include We the Students, Overruling Democracy and Unthinkable, which addresses family loss and the events surrounding January 6.²

Before entering Congress in 2017, Raskin served in the Maryland Senate, becoming majority whip and leading work on ethics reform.³ In 2021, he led the House managers in Donald Trump's second impeachment trial, which ended in Senate acquittal.²⁴

He is now the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.³ His priorities include voting rights, reproductive freedom, constitutional checks on executive power and protections for immigrants.² He also founded Democracy Summer, a program training young people in political organizing and participation.² He faces Republican Cheryl Riley.⁵