Take Back Our Country Restore Our Democracy; Montgomery County Democratic Party Recommendations
Rockville, MD: Montgomery County Democratic Party, 2020. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Stiff card stock. Format is approximately 6 inches by ll inches. Single stiff card, with information on both sides. Address information is on reverse. Such political ephemera rarely survives after the election. This item is of particular importance because it is associated with the election campaign of Congressman Raskin. Front has pictures of Biden and Harris together across the top half and a picture of Jamie Raskin on the left side of the bottom half. This item of political ephemera is related to the Congressional campaign of Representative Jamie Raskin of Montgomery County, Maryland as well as to the national campaigns of Former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris. Jamin Ben Raskin (born December 13, 1962) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district since 2017. The district is located in Montgomery County, an affluent suburban county northwest of Washington, D.C., and extends through rural Frederick County to the Pennsylvania border. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Maryland State Senate from 2007 to 2016. In Congress, Raskin chairs the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and the Congressional Freethought Caucus, and was the lead impeachment manager for the second impeachment of President Donald Trump. Prior to his election to Congress, he was a constitutional law professor at American University Washington College of Law, where he co-founded and directed the LL.M. program on law and government and co-founded the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project. As his first action in Congress, Raskin and several other members of House of Representatives objected to certifying the election of Donald Trump as president because of Russian interference in the election and voter suppression efforts. Vice President Joe Biden ruled the objection out of order because it had to be sponsored by at least one member of each chamber, and it had no Senate sponsor. In late June 2017, Raskin was the chief sponsor of legislation to establish a congressional "oversight" commission with the authority to declare a President "incapacitated" and removed from office under the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution. In April 2018, Raskin, along with Jared Huffman, Jerry McNerney, and Dan Kildee, launched the Congressional Freethought Caucus. Its stated goals include "pushing public policy formed on the basis of reason, science, and moral values," promoting the "separation of church and state," and opposing discrimination against "atheists, agnostics, humanists, seekers, religious and nonreligious persons." Huffman and Raskin are co-chairs. Raskin supports banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. In 2019, he voted in favor of the Equality Act and urged Congress members to do the same. On January 12, 2021, Raskin was named the lead impeachment manager for the second impeachment of then President Trump. He was the primary author of the impeachment article, along with Representative David Cicilline and Representative Ted Lieu, which charged Trump with inciting an insurrection by sparking the storming of the Capitol. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Jamie Raskin, Jamin Raskin, Impeachment Manager, Congressman, Representative, Donald Trump, Constitutional Law, Professor, Democratic Party, Congressional Freethought Caucus, Political Ephemera, 2020 Election. Montgomery County, Maryland
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Price: $100.00