HLT: I see the insurrection is still on your mind. And that ultimately is the best answer to a collapse into fascism and banana republicanism.
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The $1.9 trillion package is proof positive that democracy can work as an instrument of the common good.
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Jamie Raskin: The COVID-19 bill, to me, is the finest possible answer to the insurrectionary violence and mob attack we experienced on January 6. What do you think are the main benefits of the bill? Harvard Law Today: President Biden just signed the COVID-19 relief bill passed by Congress. Raskin, who prior to being elected to Congress was a constitutional law professor at American University’s Washington College of Law, spoke to Harvard Law Today on Friday, March 12, from his home in Maryland about Tommy, the day the Capitol was breached, the progressive politics that, he said, “run in my blood,” and how a fellow HLS student’s dream changed the course of his life. We cannot have presidents inciting and mobilizing mob violence against our government and our institutions because they refuse to accept the will of the people under the Constitution of the United States.” While he pled the case, he was in mourning for his son, Tommy, a Harvard Law student who died on December 31. “Senators, this cannot be our future,” he said during the trial. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) became nationally known earlier this year as the lead House impeachment manager seeking President Donald Trump’s conviction in the Senate for his role in the Capitol insurrection of January 6.