![]() We will never concede, it doesn't happen. So here are some of the things that the former president said in his long speech, at the rally on January 6th, before the attack on the Capitol.ĭONALD TRUMP : We will never give up. And they did so because, as many have subsequently said in court filings, they believed they were called to do so by Donald Trump. The fair count of legal, certified electoral votes submitted by all 50 states. They temporarily stopped a fundamental democratic process. Some assaulted police officers, ransacked and defecated in the halls of Congress. Americans physically attacked their own government. ![]() One year ago, when the entire world witnessed a violent attack on Congress, and the fragility and uncertain future of American democracy was revealed. Author of the new memoir " Unthinkable." ( Show Transcript representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district. ![]() “The first thing we have to acknowledge is that democracy is in danger,” Raskin says. Jamie Raskin about losing his son, and his refusal to let America lose its democracy. ![]() Today, On Point: One year after the attack on the U.S. we'll be in the Capitol," the representative says. The next day, Raskin's family didn’t want him to go to work at the U.S. In the seven days between Decemand January 6, 2021, Congressman Jamie Raskin lost almost everything. (AP Photo/ Andrew Harnik, Pool, File) This article is more than 1 year old. 16, in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland by Raskin and Rep. The House Oversight Committee is demanding the Justice Department provide answers about whether Biden administration officials have any plans to procure the drug used in federal executions despite an ongoing moratorium on capital punishment. 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 27, 2021. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., speaks during the House select committee hearing on the Jan. He also has some advice for anyone who is due for a colonoscopy but has been delaying it. Since the end of his cancer treatment, there has been no sign of recurrence of cancer but Raskin remains vigilant when it comes to his eating habits and overall health. In a democratic society, our obligation is not to compound all the misfortunes of life-the illnesses, the accidents, the heartache-with governmental injustice our job is to try to end injustice and reduce misfortune because we are all citizens together. That is an injustice because we, as a society, can do something about that. “If you can’t get health insurance because you love the wrong person or because you are unemployed or because you are too poor, that is not just a misfortune. He says he was struck by how medical misfortune affected various segments of society, and became more determined than ever to increase every person’s access to affordable health care. ![]() So I want health insurance for everyone, colonoscopies for everyone.”Īt the time of his diagnosis, Congressman Raskin was the floor leader on a marriage equality bill in the Maryland state legislature. I cannot imagine how devastating it must be for those who have no health insurance. It was hard enough for someone like me, who has great health insurance, to deal with my diagnosis. “It can happen to anybody–liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican, Independent, old, young, every race, and every ethnicity. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the mass was malignant, but several days later test results confirmed that it was. Raskin fell asleep during the colonoscopy, but when we woke he was told that the screening revealed a mass the size of a walnut in his colon. The physician recommended that he have an endoscopy as well as a colonoscopy. It all began when Raskin went to the doctor because he was experiencing reflux symptoms. But we were fortunate to have fantastic doctors and nurses who saved my life.” He was diagnosed with the disease in 2010 and says, “It was an excruciatingly difficult experience for me and my family. Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD 8th District) recently talked to us about how his journey through surviving stage III colon cancer began with a life-saving colonoscopy. ![]()
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