daughter and son-in-law during the January 6 Capitol attack. Hours later, he began drafting an article of impeachment against President Trump, and six days later, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi named Raskin the lead manager of Trump's second impeachment. His 2022 book Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy focuses on his son's life and his preparation for the impeachment trial. Raskin has been vegetarian since 2009. Health In May 2010, Raskin was diagnosed with colon cancer. He received six weeks of radiation and chemotherapy, and surgery to remove part of his colon, followed by more chemotherapy through early 2011. In December 2022, Raskin announced that he had been diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, and said he would undergo chemoimmunotherapy. Publications The Wealth Primary: Campaign Fundraising and the Constitution (1994) (with John Bonifaz) Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court versus the American People (2003) We the Students: Supreme Court Cases for and about Students (2014) Youth Justice in America (2014) (with Maryam Ahranjani and Andrew G. Ferguson) Unthinkable — Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy (2022) Notes and references Notes References External links Congressman Jamie Raskin Campaign website Urban Legends Reference Pages: Politics (Jamie Raskin) WCL Faculty Page |- 1962 births 20th-century American Jews 20th-century American lawyers 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American lawyers 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American politicians American University faculty and staff American atheists American humanists American Jews from Maryland American legal scholars American legal writers American memoirists American people of Russian-Jewish descent American political writers American scholars of constitutional law Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Maryland Georgetown Day School alumni Harvard College alumni Harvard Law School alumni Jewish American non-fiction writers Jewish American state legislators in Maryland Jewish members of the United States House of Representatives Lawyers from Washington, D.C. Liberalism in the United States Living people Maryland lawyers Democratic Party Maryland state senators People from Takoma Park, Maryland Politicians from Washington, D.C. Writers from Washington, D.C.