Church and State, Politics and Faith: Why We Need the Constitutional Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson and the Ethical Wisdom of Rabbi Hillel Today
Congressman Jamie Raskin proudly represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Raskin was chosen by the Democratic Caucus to be the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary in the 119th Congress. In the 118th Congress, he served as Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
Rep. Raskin was appointed as the lead impeachment manager in the second impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in 2021 and later served on the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. Prior to his service in Congress, Rep. Raskin was a three-term State Senator in Maryland, where he served as the Senate Majority Whip. He was also a professor of constitutional law at American University’s Washington College of Law for more than 25 years.
He has authored several books, including the Washington Post best-seller Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court versus the American People, We the Students: Supreme Court Cases for and About America’s Students, and the New York Times #1 best-seller Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth and the Trials of American Democracy.
Get to know Rep. Jamie Raskin
Books:
- Raskin, Jamie. Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy. New York: Harper Books, 2021.
- Ahranjani, Maryam., Andrew G. Ferguson, and Jamin B. Raskin. Youth Justice in America. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, Calif., CQ Press, 2015.
- Raskin, Jamin B. We the Students: Supreme Court Cases for and about Students. 4th ed. Thousand Oaks, Calif., CQ Press, 2015.
- Raskin, Jamin B. Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court vs. The American People. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Jamie Raskin is Professor of Law Emeritus at Washington College of Law, American University. Learn more on his faculty profile page: https://www.american.edu/wcl/faculty/raskin.cfm
The 21st Annual Gus and Libby Solomon Memorial Lecture is presented by the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at Portland State University. Sponsored by Richard B. Solomon and Alyce Flitcraft. Cosponsors include Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, Oregon Jewish Community Foundation, PSU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, PSU Department of History, PSU Department of Politics and Global Affairs, PDX Hillel, and the PSU Jewish Student Union.
A free, in-person event held at Portland State University