Who does Jamie Raskin represent?

Jamie Raskin is an American attorney and politician. Jamie has been serving as the U.S. representative for Maryland’s 8th congressional district since 2017.

The district begins in Montgomery County, an affluent enclave northwest of Washington, D.C., and stretches through rural Frederick County to the Pennsylvania border. He held office in the Maryland State Senate from 2007 until 2016 as a Democrat.

Raskin serves as co-chair of the Congressional Freethought Caucus and as chair of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in the House of Representatives.

Raskin protested the certification of Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election as one of his first acts in Congress because of Trump’s claimed ties to Russia, the country’s meddling in the election, and voter suppression tactics.

Raskin taught constitutional law at the American University Washington College of Law before being elected to Congress, where he also co-founded the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project and the LL.M. programme on law and governance.