Jamie Raskin
Congressman Jamie Raskin proudly represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was sworn into his fourth Term at the start of the 118th Congress on January 6, 2023.
For more than 25 years he was also a professor of constitutional law at American University’s Washington College of Law. He is an articulate defender of constitutional values, reminding of the great American invention of the separation of church and state, as well as the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom.
Congressman Raskin was chosen by the Democratic Caucus to be the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability in the 118th Congress. This is his fourth term serving on the Oversight Committee.
Prior to his time in Congress, Congressman Raskin was a three-term State Senator in Maryland, where he also served as the Senate Majority Whip. He earned a reputation for building coalitions in Annapolis to deliver a series of landmark legislative accomplishments, including marriage equality, abolition of the death penalty, passage of the first Benefit Corporation law in America and the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
He has authored several books, including the Washington Post best-seller Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court versus the American People, the highly-acclaimed We the Students: Supreme Court Cases For and About America’s Students, and the New York Times #1 best-seller Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth and the Trials of American Democracy.
Congressman Raskin is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and is a former editor of the Harvard Law Review.