“This is such a constitutional moment, and our impeachment case describes this as the worst constitutional failure of any president in American history, and there is just no one better to make that case than our leading constitutional scholar, Jamie Raskin,” said Rep. Jared Huffman, California Democrat.
Allies of the former president and his legal team feel much differently about Mr. Raskin and the entire impeachment process.
From their viewpoint, House Democrats have drafted nine resolutions to impeach Mr. Trump and the latest one was rushed and passed without congressional hearings in violation of due process.
Mr. Raskin will open the impeachment trial Tuesday by arguing that Mr. Trump incited a deadly insurrection in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 by claiming for months that Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election.
The nine House Democrats are expected to rely on lawmakers personal experiences during the riots to build the case against Trump. The team is led by Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland.
After suffering personal tragedy, Rep. Raskin steps up to lead prosecution of Trump
Who is Jamie Raskin?
Replay Video UP NEXT As the U.S. Senate begins its trial Tuesday trying former President Donald Trump on one charge of incitement of insurrection, Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin will lead the House s prosecution, tapped by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to serve as the top impeachment manager. Days earlier, on New Year s Eve, Raskin s son Thomas, who was following his father s footsteps at Harvard Law School, took his own life after battling depression. Tommy Raskin had a perfect heart, a perfect soul, a riotously outrageous and relentless sense of humor, and a dazzling radiant mind. He began to be tortured later in his 20s by a blindingly painful and merciless disease called depression, . a kind of relentless torture in the brain for him, Raskin wrote in a statement following his son s death.