Jamie Raskin

Raskin was born in Washington, D.C., where he graduated from Georgetown Day High School. He earned his bachelor's degree and law degree from Harvard University. He was a professor at American University College of Law, assistant attorney general in Massachusetts, and Maryland state Senator.[1]

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The following issues were listed on Raskin's campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.

Fighting Climate Change and Putting a Price on the Social Calamity of Carbon: In Congress, Jamie will work to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions to slow and halt climate change while investing in alternative clean energy technologies like solar and wind power that will permit us to break our dangerous carbon addiction. Carbon pollution can be reduced most cost-effectively through market-based approaches that put a price on carbon. Jamie will champion a sweeping carbon tax along with market-based solutions to stimulate renewable energy development and steadily and dramatically reduce carbon fuel consumption.

Reducing Gun Violence and Challenging the NRA: Gun violence is a national epidemic and a national disgrace. But the industry-fed National Rifle Association and right-wing Republicans have continually blocked common-sense solutions to the crisis. In the Maryland Senate, Jamie has been an effective and unafraid leader on gun control. In 2013, he worked with then-Senator and now Attorney General Brian Frosh to get passed one of the most comprehensive gun safety laws in the nation.

Increasing Economic Opportunity and Uplifting Wages and Benefits for all Americans: Jamie wants to increase the minimum wage and will fight for a true living wage for all American workers. “Fifty years ago,” he says, “the country’s largest employer was General Motors and the average worker there was unionized and making $35 an hour. Today the largest employer is Wal-Mart and the average workers is non-unionized and living on less than $9 an hour. We need to strengthen the right to organize and use laws to defend the position of working people.”

Protecting Women’s Health Choices: In the Senate, Jamie has been a bold leader defending women’s health choices and reproductive autonomy, most recently clashing with Senators trying to deny Medicaid funding for medically necessary abortions—a move that was defeated. He is 100% pro-choice and has been an indispensable ally of Maryland NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and the ACLU, which gave him its Henry Edgerton Civil Liberties Award for his unwavering defense of civil rights and civil liberties.

Taking on the Roberts Court and the Koch Brothers to Defend Democracy: Jamie is a champion of sweeping campaign finance reform, a powerful defender of voting rights, and a passionate critic of Citizens United and the Roberts Court’s systematic deregulation of big money in politics. Jamie was a key force in restoring the voting rights of ex-felons, successfully introduced legislation to lower the voter registration age to 16, and steered the nation’s first National Popular Vote law to passage.[13]

—Jamie Raskin's campaign website, https://jamieraskin.com/issues