Podcast appearances and mentions of Jamie B Raskin

On Jan. 5, 2021, Rep. Jamie Raskin buried his only son. The next day he witnessed firsthand the attack on the Capitol. As we mark a year since the insurrection, we look at how Raskin dealt with his son's death while serving on democracy's front lines. Read more:A warning to listeners: This episode deals with suicide. If you or someone you know needs help now, you can call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255. You can also reach a crisis counselor by texting HOME to 741-741.A year ago this week, as Congress convened to certify the results of the presidential election, a mob breached the U.S. Capitol, attacked police and threatened lawmakers.Later that night, Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.) emerged as one of the day's most forceful voices, condemning President Donald Trump and his supporters and speaking of his own unthinkable loss. He had recently lost his only son to suicide and had buried him just the day before.As we mark a year since the Jan. 6 Insurrection, we talk to Washington Post features writer Caitlin Gibson about how Raskin dealt with his son's death while serving on democracy's front lines — and, in a year filled with trauma and grief, about why his story has resonated so deeply with so many.Raskin's memoir was published this week. It's called “Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy.”Caitlin Gibson's profile of Raskin first appeared in The Washington Post Magazine.

"Law enforcement officials announced Thursday they had charged 13 suspects with conspiracy to commit kidnapping and terrorism crimes, after an investigation revealed the right-wing plotters from the Wolverine Watchmen had planned to overthrow the state government of Michigan and take Gov. Gretchen Whitmer hostage," Common Dreams reported Thursday. Six of the suspects are being charged in federal court, and seven are being charged in state court. What are we to make of this? There's been a lot of discussion about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and vice-presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) not saying whether they would "pack" the US Supreme Court if elected. Meanwhile, the Washington Post reported Thursday, "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-MD) plan to introduce legislation Friday that would create a commission to 'help ensure effective and uninterrupted leadership' in the presidency." What's this really all about?"Kyrgyzstan's government has been at a standstill this week after annulled parliamentary elections created a power vacuum with multiple political factions vying to fill it," the Washington Post reported Friday. "Now, the central Asian country is likely to see its third president suddenly toppled by a revolt in 15 years." What are the latest developments in Kyrgyzstan, Nagorno-Karabakh and Belarus? Friday is panel day, and our first panel is with writer and author Jim Kavanagh and former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Ray McGovern. They discuss the plot to kidnap Whitmer. For our final panel we talk to Professor of Economics Dr. Linwood Tauheed and Washington, DC, senior news correspondent Dr. Colin Campbell about this week's vice-presidential debate and the battle within the Democratic Party over defense spending.Guests:Caleb Maupin - Journalist and political analystDavid Schultz - Author, professor of political science at Hamline University and professor of law at the Hamline and University of Minnesota Schools of LawDaniel Lazare - Investigative journalist and author of "America's Undeclared War"Jim Kavanagh - Writer at The Polemicist and CounterPunch and the author of the article "Over the Rainbow: Paths of Resistance after George Floyd" Ray McGovern - Former CIA analyst and co-founder Veteran Intelligence Professionals for SanityDr. Colin Campbell - Washington, DC, senior news correspondentDr. Linwood Tauheed - Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City

Follow us on Twitter at @OrdEquality for everything you need to know about the ERA as we watch history in the making.Special thanks to Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world. To learn more about what you can do to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, check out www.equalitynow.org/era.To dive deeper into some of the topics discussed in this episode, check out:The Ginsburg Tapes (Lauren Moxley)The Many Lives of Pauli Murray (Kathryn Schulz * New Yorker * 2017)“Women Are Not Granted Equality Anywhere in the Constitution (Jennifer Carroll Foy * Marie Claire * 2020)Equal Means Equal (Kamala Lopez * 2016)Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court vs. The American People (Jamie B. Raskin * Routledge * 2003)