(His father is a former constitutional law professor his mother Sarah Bloom Raskin was President Obama’s deputy secretary of the Treasury.) In his twenties he began battling depression, a disorder that afflicts nearly 19 percent of Americans, with those in the 18–29 age group representing the highest percentage (21 percent) of adults who experience symptoms. The 25-year-old had been a second-year student at Harvard Law School, his parents’ alma mater. “Tommy Raskin had a perfect heart, a perfect soul, a riotously outrageous and relentless sense of humor, and a dazzling, radiant mind,” Raskin wrote in an emotional tribute.
JAMIE RASKIN CHILDREN TRIAL
Jamie Raskin speaking during former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial at the U.S. The family had buried him only the day before the Capitol insurrection.
In the midst of all of that, Raskin and his wife were grieving a terrible tragedy at home: the death of their son Thomas (Tommy to those who knew him), who took his own life on New Year’s Eve. Instead they hid under a desk and thought they were going to die. It also happened to be the day Raskin had brought his daughter Tabitha and son-in-law Hank with him to work, so that they could witness the counting of electoral votes and what should have been an iconic moment in American democracy: the peaceful transfer of power. On that day Raskin, like his fellow lawmakers, had been forced to take cover in the building-and put on a gas mask-as throngs of far-right protesters spent hours defacing art, breaking glass, looting offices, and gravely injuring police officers. Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin was thrust onto the national stage earlier this year when he was chosen by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to lead the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump on the charge of inciting a mob to storm the Capitol on January 6.
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