Jamie Raskin

Jamie Raskin (born Jamin B. Raskincite web
last = Friends of Jamin Raskin
year = 2006
url = http://www.jaminraskin.com/bio.php
title = Biography
work = Jamie Raskin for State Senate campaign web site
accessdate = 2006-05-04] , on December 13, 1962, in Washington, D.C.) is an American law professor and politician. He teaches at American University, Washington College of Law, in Washington, D.C. He won the race for Maryland State Senate in District 20, representing parts of Silver Spring and Takoma Park. He also goes by the name Jamin Raskin.

On March 1, 2006, during a Maryland State Senate hearing regarding same-sex marriage, Raskin, speaking as a constitutional law expert, told a lawmaker, "People place their hand on the Bible and swear to uphold the Constitution; they don't put their hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible."cite news
url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/995791681.html?dids=995791681:995791681&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Mar+2%2C+2006&author=&pub=The+Sun&desc=SUN+NEWS+DIGEST
title=Sun News Digest
publisher=Baltimore Sun
page=2.A
date=March 2, 2006
accessdate=2006-04-17 Abstract of archived news article, provided by the newspaper's archiving service. ] cite news
url=http://www.raskin06.com/news/06-03-02.baltsun.php
title=Emotions flare over same-sex marriage
publisher=Baltimore Sun
date=March 2, 2006
accessdate=2006-04-17 Archived on [http://www.raskin06.com/ raskin06.com] , Mr Raskin's political campaign web site.] cite web
last = Urban Legends Reference Pages
authorlink = Urban Legends Reference Pages
year = 2006
url = http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/raskin.asp
title = Jamie Raskin
work = Snopes.com
accessdate = 2006-04-17] .

As a lawyer, he has represented such clients as Greenpeace, the Service Employees International Union and a group of Montgomery Blair High School students fighting a ban on a television show they produced dealing with same-sex marriage.

Raskin founded the Marshall-Brennan program at the Washington College of Law. The program allows law students to teach a Constitution course in public high schools in the D.C. area.

Raskin graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1983, and from Harvard Law School in 1987. He is a past editor of the Harvard Law Review.

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External links

* [http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/raskin.asp Urban Legends Reference Pages: Politics (Jamie Raskin)]
* [http://www.senatorjamieraskin.com/ Jamie Raskin's Senate Website]
* [http://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/raskin/ WCL Faculty Page]