Tommy Raskin graduated from Amherst College and was a student at Harvard Law School when he died. The post noted Tommy Raskin’s many interests and volunteer gigs, including teaching Sunday school at Temple Emanuel in Chevy Chase, a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C., and at J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group. “He ordered and devoured books on the Civil War and Maryland’s history in it, World War II and resistance to Nazism, Jewish history, libertarianism, moral philosophy, the history of the Middle East conflict, peace movements, anything by Gar Alperovitz on the decision to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and anything by Peter Singer on animal rights.” “Tommy grew up as a strikingly beautiful curly-haired madcap boy beaming with laughter and charm, making mischief, kicking the soccer ball in the goal, acting out scenes from To Kill A Mockingbird with his little sister in his father’s constitutional law class, teaching other children the names of all the Justices on the Supreme Court, hugging strangers on the street, teaching our dogs foreign languages, running up and down the aisle on airplanes giving people high fives, playing jazz piano like a blues great from Bourbon Street, and at 12 writing a detailed brief to his mother explaining why he should not have to do a Bar Mitzvah and citing Due Process liberty interests (appeal rejected),” the post said. “He began to be tortured later in his 20s by a blindingly painful and merciless ‘disease called depression,’ as Tabitha put it,” the family said. The Raskins posted a memorial to Tommy, who took his life at 25, on Medium. The money will be directed twice a year to charities favored by Tommy Raskin, including Oxfam, Give Directly, the Helen Keller Institute and Animal Outlook. The Tommy Raskin Memorial Fund for People and Animals launched this week with initial funding of $50,000. Jamie Raskin has established a fund to honor the memory of Tommy Raskin, the Maryland Jewish Democrat’s son, who died on Dec. Of course they’d be safe, Raskin remembered responding, because “this is the Capitol.The family of Rep. Raskin recalled how the pair wondered if going with him would be safe given Trump had exhorted his supporters to come to Washington for a rally championing the then-president’s baseless claims that he lost November’s presidential election because of fraud. 6 - when rioters unleashed their rampage. Raskin’s grown daughter, Tabitha, and his son-in-law, Hank, accompanied him to the Capitol the next day - Jan. Raskin’s 25-year-old son, Tommy, a law student at Harvard, his father’s alma mater, killed himself on New Year’s Eve after years of struggles with depression, and was buried the following Tuesday. On Tuesday, he punctuated harrowing accounts of rioters laying siege to one the leading symbols of American democracy by drawing on tragedy in his own life. Though acquittal is likely thanks to Senate Republicans who have remained loyal to the ex-president, the proceedings have greatly raised the national profile of Raskin, who is serving as the Democrats’ impeachment manager.
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Trump is the first president to face an impeachment trial after leaving office and the first to be twice impeached. Five people died as a result of the insurrection. Jamie Raskin of Maryland laid his 25-year-old son to rest, he was. Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin, has died, the congressmans office said Thursday. Raskin, 58, a former constitutional law professor, is leading the impeachment prosecution in the Senate of former President Donald Trump, who is charged with inciting last month’s siege of the Capitol to overturn the election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden. One is the January 6 insurrection, and the other is the death of his son, Tommy. (WJZ) - Thomas 'Tommy' Raskin, the son of Maryland Rep.
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