Raskin was ushered away from the chamber, while his daughter and son-in-law went into hiding under a desk in House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's office. Raskin and his relatives were trapped during the attack. This as the family, like the rest of the world, was already struggling against the crushing weight of the pandemic.įor his part, Raskin was helping lead arguments against GOP attempts to overturn President Joe Biden's election, as his youngest daughter, Tabitha, and a son-in-law watched from the House visitor's gallery.Īs Raskin sat in the chamber, it was celebrity Alyssa Milano, a family friend, who alerted the congressman by text that rioters had breached the Capitol. Raskin's book opens in the depths of loss and despair, followed days later by the deadly Jan.

'I continue to arraign and prosecute myself for every sign, every clue, I missed,' writes Jamie Raskin, a former law professor who is also father to two daughters. A rising legal star, Thomas Bloom Raskin died at the age of 25. On the last day of 2020, Raskin lost his son to suicide. In his memoir Unthinkable, hitting shelves Tuesday, Congressman Jamie Raskin, D-Md., is on a journey - moving through layers of excruciating trauma and grief.

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