Raskin Proposes New Health Panel for POTUS Fitness Under 25th Amendment

Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) has introduced new legislation that would make it easier to invoke a little-known constitutional provision to remove the president of the United States, if it is determined that they can no longer function in the role for reasons related to their physical or mental health. The 25th Amendment to the Constitution deals with presidential succession.
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Raskin: DOJ Records Suggest Trump Leveraged Classified Docs for Financial Gain

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, is demanding “urgent answers” from Attorney General Pam Bondi over a memo suggesting that President Donald Trump may have used the classified documents he improperly removed from the White House at the end of his first term for his own financial gain. In his letter, Raskin said the memo in question — which…
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Department of Justice Drops Defense of Trump’s Orders Punishing Law Firms

Congressman Jamie Raskin said the US Department of Justice’s decision Monday to abandon its legal cases against law firms that refused to capitulate to President Donald Trump should serve as “a reminder that those who fight back against authoritarianism are winning.” The DOJ asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to dismiss its cases against law firms including Perkins…
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Raskin: Trump Mentioned “More Than a Million Times” in Unredacted Epstein Files

President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that he had “nothing to do with” Jeffrey Epstein. But his name reportedly appears in the unredacted files at least a million times, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) said on Tuesday after being granted access to the documents. Raskin told Axios that he searched Trump’s name in the files on Monday, and it came up “more than a million times.
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DOJ Under Congressional Scrutiny After Improper Redactions in Epstein Files

Several members of Congress are expected this week to review hundreds, if not thousands, of files relating to disgraced financier and accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, amid claims that files are being improperly redacted and that victims’ names have been wrongly released to the public. The Epstein Files Transparency Act — which passed last fall after considerable opposition from…
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Raskin Says Nationwide General Strike May Be Needed to Stop Trump

In an interview with MS NOW’s Alex Witt over the weekend, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) indicated that a nationwide general strike might be the next thing needed in order to oppose President Donald Trump’s authoritarianism. Raskin made clear to viewers of the program that he didn’t believe a general strike, on its own, could bring about huge changes, but rather that it had to be done in…
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