#JAMIE RASKIN SON DIES UPDATE#

“You could hear people shouting and yelling, you could hear, ‘Hang Mike Pence!’” recalled Raskin. But as the mob closed in on the House chamber, he and other members, were rushed out by security, first into a room where, he says, they donned gas masks to protect against chemical sprays while the crowd outside the doors screamed threats. Raskin, wearing a torn black ribbon on his lapel as a sign of mourning, received an emotional standing ovation on the House floor that day as he rose to rebut Republican efforts to challenge the slate of electors from Arizona and other swing states won by Biden.

#JAMIE RASKIN SON DIES UPDATE#

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A Capitol police officer was killed, and members of Congress and staffers, huddled together for hours in windowless rooms, were exposed to COVID-19 by Republican colleagues who refused entreaties to wear masks at least five House members have since tested positive. Capitol, breaking through barriers and smashing windows. Raskin’s courage was tested that day when a furious mob of Trump supporters assaulted the U.S. “I wanted to be close to her, and she wanted to be close to me.” “We wanted to be together,” Raskin said in an interview on the Yahoo News “Skullduggery” podcast. “I’ve got to go.” He invited Tabitha to come with him. “I swore a constitutional oath,” he told his daughter. I want you to stay home,” his daughter, Tabitha, pleaded, fearing possible violence. 6, having just experienced the most painful of tragedies: burying his 25 year-old-son, Tommy, a gifted student at Harvard Law School, who had taken his own life on New Year’s Eve after a bout of deep depression.īut this was the day Congress was to officially certify Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory - and with scores of Republican lawmakers vowing to object, Raskin, a constitutional law professor, had a job to do: He had been slated to help lead the Democratic response in a crisis that threatened to upend American democracy. Jamie Raskin was grieving on the morning of Jan. “He approached everything he did with kindness and warmth, and an openness that spread itself easily among others.Maryland Democratic Rep. “With Jamie came love and contagious joy,' said Redford Center executive director Jill Tidman in an Instagram post. He also established the James Redford Institute in 1995 for Transplant Awareness to raise money and distribute tools to increase awareness about the shortage of organ donors. James and his father co-founded the Redford Center, a nonprofit focused on environmental filmmaking. It had an impact on me, and I became committed to do something to help the cause of organ donation.” “Think of the fact that every day 10-12 people die waiting to be transplanted. “The experience made me realize how fortunate I was,” Redford reflected. He produced the film and raised its $600,000 budget from foundations, corporations and individuals, including his parents. He expressed gratitude for a liver transplant that saved his life in an HBO documentary “The Kindness of Strangers” in 1999. But he went on with his life, marrying his wife Kyle who once taught eighth-grade history in Marin County. James battled with liver disease for more than 30 years. I don’t know what we would’ve done (without) them over the past 2 (years).” As his wife of 32 (years), I’m most grateful for the two spectacular children we raised together. “He lived a beautiful, impactful life & was loved by many. “We’re heartbroken,” his wife wrote about her husband, who was called Jamie. She posted a message and a slew of photos on Twitter that included James, herself and their family. Kyle said her husband’s liver disease returned two years ago and the cancer was discovered in November last year while he waited on a liver transplant. Robert Redford’s publicist, Cindi Berger, said in a statement Monday that the 84-year-old father is mourning with his family during this “difficult time.” His wife, Kyle, confirmed in an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune that her husband died Friday from bile-duct cancer in his liver. LOS ANGELES - James Redford, a filmmaker, activist and son of actor Robert Redford, has died.

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