![]() Please note that this event will not be live-streamed. Dinner service will be available throughout the event. ![]() Signed copies will be available for purchase through Eventbrite. There will be time for Q&A with the audience before the end of the program, and you can purchase a copy of UNTHINKABLE and have it signed by Congressman Raskin. The program will begin at 6 PM with an introduction from a member of our team. Congressman Raskin joins us at Busboys to tell us more about this moving story of a father coping with his pain and a revealing examination of holding President Trump accountable for the violence he instigated. Through it all, he reckons with the loss of his brilliant, remarkable son, a Harvard Law student whose values and memory continually inspired the Congressman to confront the dark impulses unleashed by Donald Trump. With an inside account of leading the team prosecuting President Trump in the Senate, Congressman Raskin shares never before told stories of just how close we came to losing our democracy that fateful day and lays out the methodical prosecution that convinced Democrats and Republicans alike of Trump's responsibility for inciting insurrectionary violence against our government. And yet, on January 6, he faced the one thing he had failed to anticipate: mass political violence designed to block Biden's election. Going inside Congress on January 6, he recounts the horror of that day, a day that he and other Democrats had spent months preparing for under the correct assumption that they would encounter an attempted electoral coup-not against a President but for one. In his honest and heart-wrenching book UNTHINKABLE, Congressman Raskin discusses this unimaginable convergence of personal and public trauma, detailing how the painful loss of his son and the power of Tommy's convictions fueled the Congressman's work in the aftermath of modern democracy's darkest day. Together this nine-member team of House impeachment managers riveted a nation still in anguish, putting on an unprecedented Senate trial that produced the most bipartisan Presidential impeachment vote in American history. As our reeling nation mourned the deaths of numerous people and lamented the injuries of more than 140 police officers hurt in the attack, Congressman Raskin, a Constitutional law professor, was called upon to put aside his overwhelming grief-both personal and professional-and lead the impeachment effort against President Trump for inciting the violence. Capitol hoping to hand four more years of power to President Donald Trump. Seven days later on January 6, Congressman Raskin returned to Congress to help certify the 2020 Presidential election results, when violent insurrectionists led by right wing extremist groups stormed the U.S. On December 31, 2020, Tommy Raskin, the only son of Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, tragically took his own life after a long struggle with depression. Representative from Maryland’s 8th congressional district.In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life – and his family's – as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation's Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence. *Professor Jamie Raskin is a Professor of Law Emeritus at AUWCL where he taught Constitutional Law, the First Amendment, and Legislative Process. And hundreds of people are sharing good deeds they've done in his name, and including several of our AUWCL family. Gifts to honor the Raskin family can be made in memory of Tommy Raskin and directed to the WCL Deans Fund.Īll donations received will be appropriately documented and shared with the Raskin family, who will aid in determining the ultimate use of any contributions received.įor additional ways to show your support, the Raskin family has created a fund in honor of their son, the Tommy Raskin Memorial Fund for People and Animals. To that end, the information below is meant to help direct friends and members of the AUWCL community who would like to make a contribution to AUWCL in support of Jamie Raskin and his family. Many in our community have sought ways in which they can show their support for the Raskin family- with most hoping to show community solidarity by creating something of lasting impact at AUWCL. Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Affinity Relations.Upper Level Courses & Writing Resources.
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