A former constitutional law professor at American University, he is often Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Democrats’ go-to guy for complex legal and ethics questions.īut during the impeachment trial, it was Raskin’s ability to weave his personal grief over his son’s sudden death with Trump’s push to overturn the election and overthrow democracy that captivated Washington and the nation. In just a few short years in Congress, Raskin has emerged as one of the most well-respected legal scholars in Washington. “This book is a labor of love written to capture the dazzling life of a brilliant young man in crisis, who we lost forever, and the struggle to defend a beautiful nation in crisis, a democracy that we still have the chance to save.” Capitol incited by Donald Trump and calculated to overthrow the 2020 presidential election,” Raskin said in a statement Wednesday. “I wrote UNTHINKABLE as a way to make sense of two traumatic events in my life, the shattering loss of our son Tommy to depression on the last day of 2020 and, one week later, the bloody Januinsurrection at the U.S. 4, just two days before the first anniversary of the Capitol insurrection. It will be published by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, on Jan. 6, surviving the deadly Capitol insurrection with his daughter and son-in-law, drafting two articles of impeachment against former President Trump for his role in the riot and leading the Democrats’ ultimately unsuccessful prosecution of the 45th president in his second Senate impeachment trial. In “Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy,” Raskin opens up about losing his 25-year-old son Tommy to suicide on New Year’s Eve, defending the results of the 2020 election on the House floor on Jan. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) is writing a memoir about the tragic and historic first 45 days of 2021 that forever altered the lives of him and his family members.
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