Rep. Jamie Raskin’s Book ‘Unthinkable’ Coming Out Jan. 4

NEW YORK (AP/WJZ) — U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland is moving connected a memoir successful which helium volition bespeak connected the Jan. 6 siege of the Capitol and the calamity helium suffered a week earlier erstwhile his 25-year-old lad Tommy killed himself.

The publication is called “Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy,” which Harper volition people Jan. 4, 2022.

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“I wrote ‘Unthinkable’ arsenic a mode to marque consciousness of 2 traumatic events successful my life,” Raskin, 58, said successful a connection Wednesday. “This publication is simply a labour of emotion written to seizure the dazzling beingness of a superb young antheral successful crisis, who we mislaid forever, and the conflict to support a beauteous federation successful crisis, a ideology that we inactive person the accidental to save.”

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Raskin, a Democrat and erstwhile law instrumentality professor, helped draught articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump for his alleged encouragement of the convulsive mob and led the impeachment prosecution successful the Senate. The Democratic-run House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump, who was acquitted by the Republican-led Senate.

The riot astatine the Capitol took spot arsenic lawmakers were certifying Joe Biden’s Electoral College triumph implicit Trump. During those proceedings, Raskin stood to reason against Trump’s baseless claims of fraud but besides to convey “all my dear, beloved colleagues for each your emotion and tenderness, which my household volition ne'er forget.” He received a lengthy lasting ovation.

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Raskin represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District, covering parts of Frederick, Carroll and Montgomery counties.