JAMIE RASKIN BIO INSTALL

I also want to end by asking Madeleine Carter, the director of the new MSNBC documentary Love & the Constitution, which is premiering Sunday night, what you want people to take away from and why you named the film Love & the Constitution. Jamie Raskin’s new book is Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy. But on just the idea that you can even be cognizant of climate change and serve in different governmental functions, it’s an amazing thing.ĪMY GOODMAN: Well, Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, husband of Sarah Bloom Raskin, member of the House select committee investigating the January 6th Capitol insurrection, lead impeachment manager in President Trump’s second impeachment trial. It’s just an outrageous attack on her qualifications, of course.

But what they’re attacking is the idea that there can be citizens who are fully aware of climate change, who take it seriously, who can serve honorably and lawfully in other capacities. She has said, of course, that she will follow the law and act completely within the dual mandate of the Fed. So none of this is about her qualifications to serve, obviously, because the Senate itself has approved and confirmed her two times before.Īll of this is about things that she has said or written about climate change. Senate in bipartisan fashion twice, as a governor of the Federal Reserve Board and also as deputy secretary of the United States Treasury. But Sarah has been unanimously or near unanimously confirmed by the U.S. I wasn’t there, and I had some hearings of my own, so I only caught parts of it.

JAMIE RASKIN BIO INSTALL

AMY GOODMAN: Finally, Congressmember Raskin, could you comment on the hearing yesterday around your wife being confirmed to the Federal Reserve? The Washington Post described, “Sarah Bloom Raskin is championed by Democrats eager to install a bank regulator with a focus on climate change, and criticized by Republicans who don’t believe climate change belongs in conversations about the financial system or economic stability.” It was a serious grilling in the Senate Banking Committee.

Jamie raskin bio