Rep. Jamie Raskin is an American attorney, law professor, and Democratic politician from Maryland. Before entering electoral politics, he was a longtime constitutional law professor at American University Washington College of Law, where he also founded academic programs focused on law and democracy. He was elected to the Maryland State Senate in 2006, where he served for a decade before being elected to Congress in 2016. In the U.S. House, he has become one of the most prominent Democratic voices on constitutional law, civil liberties, and democratic institutions. He gained national prominence as the lead impeachment manager during Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial and later served on the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.