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Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought-spoke with Raskin mainly about the current state and possible future of U.S. True to this year’s Point/Counterpoint theme, “Democracy at a Crossroads,” the moderators-Professor of Philosophy Nishi Shah and Lawrence Douglas, the James J.

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(Conversations with writer George Packer and Harvard University Professor Danielle Allen will continue the series in November.) But this time he was visiting as the first invited expert in the 2022–23 Point/Counterpoint Series. Raskin, a lawyer and former constitutional law professor who has represented Maryland’s 8th District as a Democrat in Congress since 2017, has many connections to Amherst: his wife, Sarah Bloom Raskin ’83, and all three of their children attended the College. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack. It’s a topic about which Raskin knows a great deal, having served as lead manager for the resulting second impeachment of the former president and as a member of the U.S. He was talking about Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which, Raskin said, culminated in mob violence at the Capitol Building on Jan. Jamie Raskin to an audience of students, faculty and staff in Cole Assembly Room on Oct. “It all started with one guy who could not take ‘no’ for an answer from the American people,” said U.S.

Left to right: Lawrence Douglas, professor of law, jurisprudence & social thought Rep.