Raskin was a key figure in the campaign to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland. He was a sponsor of bills advocating for the abolition of the death penalty in Maryland, the expansion of the state ignition interlock device program, and the establishment of legal guidelines for benefit corporations, a type of for-profit corporation whose bylaws and decision-making processes include a material societal benefit. Raskin was a strong supporter of liberal issues in the Maryland Senate, where he worked well with both Republicans and moderate Democrats. He was named Senate majority whip in 2012, as well as chairman of the Montgomery County Senate Delegation, chairman of the Select Committee on Ethics Reform, and a member of the Judicial Proceedings Committee. He was elected as a Maryland state senator for District 20, representing parts of Silver Spring and Takoma Park in Montgomery County, in November 2006. Raskin wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post strongly condemning the decisions of the Federal Election Commission and the Commission on Presidential Debates. In 1996, he represented Ross Perot in connection with his exclusion from the United States presidential debates. Raskin was the general counsel for Jesse Jackson’s National Rainbow Coalition from 1989 to 1990. He co-founded and directed the law and government LL.M. program, as well as the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project. Raskin spent more than 25 years as a constitutional law professor at American University Washington College of Law, where he taught future fellow impeachment manager Stacey Plaskett. He received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1987, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Jamie Raskin graduated from Georgetown Day School in 1979 at the age of 16, and Harvard College in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts in government with a concentration in political theory.
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