“I had to engage in a mini-constitutional seminar with everybody we were asking for money,” Raskin said. Then, he steered money toward them through a group he named “Twelfth Amendment Defenders Fund.”īack then, educating donors about such a hypothetical scenario proved to be quite an endeavor. First, he identified nearly two dozen Democratic candidates who would be crucial to either defending or flipping House delegations.
So Raskin sought to change the balance of power via the upcoming election. But if Democrats could flip at least one Republican-held delegation, they would deny the G.O.P. That put Democrats at a disadvantage, because before the 2020 election, Republicans controlled 26 states to Democrats’ 22 (two others were tied).
All the representatives from each state vote on that state’s choice for president, and then each state casts one vote. Instead of a simple majority of House lawmakers, a majority of House delegations picks the winner. Under the 12th Amendment, if no candidate musters a majority of the Electoral College to Congress on the appointed day, the House must immediately vote to choose the new president. Some colleagues, Raskin said, suggested he was overthinking the prospect for Republican misdeeds, saying, “There’s the constitutional law professor again, you know, lost in the nooks and crannies of the Constitution.” 12th Amendment arcanaĪs Raskin delved deeper, he realized that Democrats were vulnerable to one potential Trump move in particular: the triggering of a “contingent election” in the House of Representatives. “It was a shoddy, superficial product, but it was as I predicted.” I would have done a better job,” Raskin said, allowing himself a sly smile.
6 gambit, Raskin found it eerily similar to his own thinking. When investigators later unearthed a proposed six-step plan by John Eastman, a fringe conservative scholar who advised Trump on his Jan. “I fault myself for not having taken seriously the possibility of the outdoors violence entering into the chamber.” “Everything he ended up doing we essentially predicted, other than unleashing the violent insurrection against us,” Raskin said. Raskin summed up his findings a few months later in a memo to Pelosi’s leadership team. “I just figured out what they would do if they wanted to win.” “We all had become great students of Donald Trump and his psyche,” Raskin recalled. Over the next few months, he tried to piece together the Trump team’s likely strategy. So when Pelosi asked him to game out what Trump might do in November, Raskin undertook the task with characteristic vigor.
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She confided in Raskin, who had long been obsessed with the Electoral College system, which he thought was full of “booby traps” that someone like Trump could exploit. 6 Attendees: To many of those who attended the Trump rally but never breached the Capitol, that date wasn’t a dark day for the nation. Lost Lives: A bipartisan Senate report found that at least seven people died in connection with the attack.A Day of Rage: Using thousands of videos and police radio communications, a Times investigation reconstructed in detail what happened - and why.Here is a close look at how the attack unfolded. 6, 2021, 64 days after Election Day 2020, a mob of supporters of President Donald J.
Two men could hardly have been more different: Raskin, an earnest constitutional law scholar who keeps a vegan diet and Trump, a showman with a cynical disregard for legal niceties and a preference for well-done steak. Months earlier, Raskin reveals in “ Unthinkable,” his wrenching new memoir, Pelosi had tapped him for a special assignment: to think like Trump. And by asking me to be the lead impeachment manager, she was telling me that I was still needed.” A secret mission And I wasn’t sure if I would ever really be able to do anything again. “Pelosi’s got some magical powers,” he went on, after collecting himself. Raskin choked up at this point, bowing his head on folded hands. “I felt it was necessary, and Tommy was with me every step along the way.” “I had no choice,” Raskin said in an interview at his home in Takoma Park, Md., a proudly progressive enclave just outside Washington. Six days after that, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked Raskin to lead the second impeachment of former President Donald J.
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