Last week, Raskin invited Trump to testify at the trial, though the former president's lawyers are blocking him from appearing under oath, either before or during the Senate impeachment trial. He's also survived a bout with colorectal cancer.
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Prior to serving in Congress, Raskin was a three-term state senator in Maryland and worked as a professor of constitutional law at American University's Washington College of Law for more than 25 years. The gambit was squashed after no senators joined the objection and then-Vice President Joe Biden declared, "It is over." Ironically, in one of his first acts as a freshman congressman, Raskin and other House Democrats unsuccessfully challenged the results of the 2016 presidential election during the counting of the electoral ballots in 2017. "The nine impeachment managers appointed by the House of Representatives will present overwhelming evidence of the facts of former President Trump's incitement of the violent insurrection that took place in and around the Capitol on Jan. 25 - a few days after Trump left office and Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States - Raskin promised to prove that Trump had committed "high crimes and misdemeanors against the United States." Upon delivering the article of impeachment to the Senate on Jan. "They will do so guided by their great love of country, determination to protect our democracy and loyalty to our oath to the Constitution." "It is their constitutional and patriotic duty to present the case for the president's impeachment and removal," Pelosi, D-Calif., said on Jan.
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with great solemnity, prayerfulness and urgency."
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Last month, Pelosi named Raskin the lead impeachment manager, noting that the nine managers "will honor their duty to defend democracy.