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I felt him in my heart and in my chest. All the way through the counting of the electoral college votes and through the nightmare of the armed attack on the Capitol. It really is Tommy Raskin, and his love and his values and his passion, that have kept me going.
— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), commenting on the recent loss of his son, Harvard Law second-year student Thomas Bloom Raskin, whose funeral was held the day before an angry horde of President Trump’s supporters descended upon the Capitol to wreak havoc as members of Congress certified the election. In the wake of the attempted coup, Raskin, a constitutional law professor, drafted a resolution asking Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office, as well as an article of impeachment against him. Raskin said if his son were here today, he’d have called the deadly invasion at the Capitol “the absolute worst form of crime against democracy.”
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