“I think a lot of colleagues were saying, ‘Jamie is dealing with his grief by throwing himself into the impeachment and the trial,’ which didn’t quite capture it for me,” Raskin tells me. He spoke of his family’s experience, how the assault on the Capitol came the day after burying Tommy, “the saddest day of our lives.” Colleagues and friends and media interviewers asked him repeatedly about the convergence of his son’s death and the impeachment proceedings, how he was handling both these monumental experiences simultaneously. Both before and during the trial, his widely circulated remarks and arguments blended a scrupulous interpretation of constitutional law with the emotion of the insurrection’s human toll. In the weeks that followed, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) tapped him to lead the impeachment of President Donald Trump, Raskin found himself catapulted into the national spotlight. 7 when Raskin finally arrived home in Takoma Park, Md., bearing the weight of a wounded family and a wounded country. He returned to the House floor after midnight and delivered the concluding remarks for the Democrats, in response to the Republican objections to the electors from Pennsylvania, and then the counting was over at last, the election formally certified. 6, Raskin had already spoken the word “impeachment” to his House Judiciary Committee colleagues David Cicilline (D-R.I.), Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Joe Neguse (D-Colo.). By the time Tabitha and Hank left the Hill to go home on the night of Jan. In the aftermath of such wreckage, both personal and historic, it felt essential to Raskin to make a record of everything. 4, just before the first anniversary of the insurrection. The vivid details of that day are seared into Raskin’s memory and chronicled in his forthcoming book, “ Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy,” which will be published Jan. They spent a harrowing 45 minutes sheltering there, crouched under a desk, fearing for their lives as insurrectionists stomped down the hallway and jiggled the knob of the locked door as they passed. “I thought Tabitha didn’t want me to leave her alone,” Raskin says, “but it turned out she didn’t want me to be alone.” Amid the frenzied evacuation from the House floor, Raskin urgently texted Tabitha and Hank they were barricaded in the office of House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) along with Raskin’s chief of staff, Julie Tagen. That night, it had been decided that Raskin’s younger daughter, Tabitha Raskin, and his son-in-law, Hank Kronick - who is married to Raskin’s daughter Hannah - would meet the congressman on Capitol Hill the following day for the certification of the electoral college votes, while Hannah and her mother, Sarah Bloom Raskin, would stay home with family. Why was the covid death toll so high at some veterans homes? He would come to make sense of this later: What was there to be afraid of when the worst thing imaginable had already happened to him? It was chaos, but Raskin watched it unfold with a strange sense of remove, a clarity of focus he did not feel the visceral fear that gripped so many others around him.
Jason Crow (D-Colo.) tried to tend to her.
Susan Wild (D-Pa.) succumb to a panic attack as Rep. Several Democrats were shouting furiously at their Republican counterparts: You did this! You let this happen! He glanced up at the gallery and saw Rep.
Raskin remembers someone yelling instructions to retrieve the gas masks - he hadn’t even known there were gas masks beneath the chairs - and someone else calling for members of Congress to remove the lapel pins they wear to identify themselves.
Some people raced to shove furniture against the shuddering doors others began making phone calls to loved ones, saying what they thought could be final goodbyes. Then came a chorus of screams as the House floor devolved into pandemonium on the afternoon of the Jan.
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