Meet Jamie Raskin
Jamie has represented Maryland’s 8th District (Montgomery, Frederick and Carroll Counties) since he ran for Congress in 2016 and prevailed, after being outspent 9-1, in what was then the most expensive primary election in American history. Before taking office in January of 2017, he was a professor of constitutional law at American University’s Washington College of Law, where he launched the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project, and a three-term Democratic State Senator from District 20 (Silver Spring and Takoma Park). As Majority Whip of the Maryland Senate, Jamie became famous for building bipartisan coalitions and leading complex floor fights to pass marriage equality, abolish the death penalty, enact tough anti-drunk driving laws, adopt the first National Popular Vote measure in America, allow for direct wine shipment, create a medical cannabis program, and pass the world’s first Benefit Corporation law. He was recognized by the Maryland Gazette of Politics and Business as one of the state’s top ten “Most Effective Legislators” and by the Silver Spring Voice as “Montgomery County’s Most Responsive Elected Official.”
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