Rep. Jamie Raskin
@RepRaskin
Proudly serving Maryland's beautiful Eighth Congressional District and leading @HouseJudiciary Committee Democrats in Congress.
I’m hearing all the time from federal workers, nonprofits, LGBTQIA+ Americans, immigrant families, and others in our community who have been targeted and harmed by the president’s actions. I wrote this letter about our path forward. raskin.house.gov/2025/2/rep-ras…
I meet frequently with federal workers—anti-human trafficking officials, food inspectors, cancer researchers, air traffic controllers—who have been sacked as part of Donald Trump’s onslaught against the government workforce. Trump's wrecking public services and public careers,…
Inspired by federal workers and their families fighting the Trump-Musk madness. Solidarity is the watch word of our time as we defend against Trump’s assault on facts, science, diplomacy and the professional civil service.
Right-wing cancel culture run wild! They’re not only canceling Colbert, global relief, the federal work force and their promise to release the Epstein File. Now they’re canceling Congress!
BREAKING: Mike Johnson just canceled votes for Thursday and is sending the House home early for summer recess in order to shut down Democratic efforts to demand more votes on releasing the Epstein files.
Speaker Johnson would rather cancel all votes & hearings than simply have a vote on bipartisan legislation demanding release of the Epstein files, something he, Trump & Bondi have been demanding for months! A pathetic new low in political cowardice & legislative malpractice.
Breaking News: Speaker Mike Johnson said he would shut down the House until September to block a vote on calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. nyti.ms/4nZtblR
Trump never promised to rip Medicaid health care away from 17 million Americans. But he did. What he did promise was to release the Epstein files to expose a child sex ring by the rich and powerful. But suddenly, the self-proclaimed “most transparent administration in history”…
The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse. The president's job is to "faithfully execute" the decisions we've made and he has signed into law. He may not impound, redirect or confiscate money outside federal law.
.@RepRaskin: "The grand jury files relate ONLY to the prosecution of Epstein himself for what HE did and Maxwell for what SHE did, but it doesn't include the whole universe of other people that we're interested in... it's a complete distraction."
.@RepRaskin: "They'd conscripted 1000 FBI agents to be working around the clock 24 hours going through 100,000 Epstein documents and told them to flag any mentions of Donald Trump... This might be one of the most massive cover-ups in the history of the United States unfolding…
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What do “The New Jim Crow” and the AP Psych textbook have in common? They’re two of the 596 books that @SecDef pulled from DoD schools. American servicemembers signed up to defend our freedom—their families shouldn’t be made victims of right-wing political correctness and…
For six years, our MD-08 Local Hero, Manny Hidalgo, has led Shepherd’s Table in Silver Spring with energy and creativity, serving three meals a day, seven days a week, to our neighbors in need and working to uplift people experiencing homelessness.
We don't need Trump or Bondi to sift through the stack and tell America what they think is “credible” in the Epstein files. Thanks, but no thanks—we’ll decide ourselves. The president should stop playing us for fools and suckers. Release everything—now.
Trump’s rolling campaign of shakedown censorship, blackmail and purge has now felled the Late Show. But Stephen Colbert, a true-blue patriot and comic genius who skewers dunce-tyrants for a living, is irrepressible and invincible. washingtonpost.com/national/2025/…
John Lewis was my colleague and my friend. He insisted always that our politics be anchored in morality and our commitment to the greatest good for the greatest number of people. He would understand well the fight we are in today, the fight of our lives. And he would tell us to…
On this John Lewis National Day of Action, we remember John’s determination to put his body, heart and mind in the way of injustice and oppression. Honor this hero of the Civil Rights Movement by making good trouble to defend democracy and freedom.
Insatiable greed from Republicans in DC who aren't satisfied with the giant corporate tax breaks funded by prying away health care from 17 million Americans. They want to stage yet another ruling-class financial riot against the American people. washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…
Trump and his allies promoted Epstein conspiracy theories for political gain but are now suppressing the evidence they once demanded be made public. @RepRaskin explains why Judiciary Democrats are calling on Chair Jordan to subpoena the files and hold a public hearing where…
We won't allow union busting on Capitol Hill ✊ #ICYMI Last week, @RepRaskin joined @unitehere Local 23 for a rally demanding that incoming House food vendors rehire the existing workers and honor their union contract. Read more about the rally here: rollcall.com/2025/07/09/hou…
The most important words of the Constitution are the first three: We the People. In America, the people are sovereign, and those of us who aspire and attain to public office are nothing but the servants of the people. Any officials who act as kings, dictators or lords should be…
Chairman Jordan scoffs and says he "wouldn't subpoena the Attorney General" when it comes to the Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse ring. Why not? @JudiciaryGOP knew how to subpoena the last Attorney General when they wanted evidence. The whole country is waiting. Release the files.