Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, talks Donald Trump, the Supreme Court crisis, and taking on the GOP in Congress.
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin speaks with reporters outside the U.S. Capitol May 17, 2024.’s office is busy. It’s the summer interns’ first day, one staffer explains. Constituents and aides flutter in and out of the small lobby, somehow still spacious considering the generally cramped conditions the House’s quarters are renowned for. Everyone is watching the clock, everything is running a little behind schedule.
The return to constitutional principles, to what “the founders intended,” is often associated with reactionary right-wing politics. Raskin, who is also the vice-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, sees things differently, appreciating the Constitution not as an incarcerating document holding Americans hostage to the whims of 18th-century men, but as a living and often deeply misunderstood framework for the betterment of the country.
Donald Trump has set a model of incorrigible lawlessness in the GOP. He has a spectacular disrespect for law, rules, conventions, values, and manners. Where does somebody like Marjorie Taylor Greene get the idea that she doesn’t have to pay any attention to rules of parliamentary procedure? It comes directly from the boss, and Trump is now the undisputed, incontrovertible master of the GOP.
It’s pretty clear that GOP gridlock in the House is often directly tied to efforts by Republicans to obstruct President Joe Biden’s policy agenda. Biden has a pretty strong record on a lot of key issues but it doesn’t feel like it’s really breaking through in terms of voter perception.
I’ve been to 20 states now, campaigning. There’s a lot of concern and anxiety about Donald Trump still being a political threat, and Trumpism still being alive after all these years. I do think that that is the organizing logic of this campaign. I mean, generational politics has always been a force in American history. There’s nothing new about that. The politicians that you see as dominant today, are not going to be dominant in 10 years. They will be gone. It will be a whole new generation, that’s just built into our process.
Yeah, and this one is not partisan in any way, because you get it across the political spectrum. But people will get up and say, including my beloved Nancy Pelosi, we have three co-equal branches. And I just don’t believe it for one second. One of the four short sections in Article Two is all about how you can impeach a president for treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors. Why is it that Congress has the power to impeach, try, and convict the president and the president does not have the power to impeach, try, and convict members of Congress, if we’re co-equal?
There’s been a lot of talk about expanding the Supreme Court or implementing a binding code of ethics. Are those feasible?
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