He was just centuries ahead in terms of his thinking and feeling about the world. I think of him as a messenger from a future none of us will ever get to see. He was a passionate vegan, who converted more people to the practice of not eating meat than anybody I’ve ever met - including me, and lots of people in our family.
He was a great champion of human rights, and also animal rights and animal welfare. He had the qualities of a great empath and a moral and political visionary. It was basically a love letter to our son and then it became a love letter to America.Ī: Tommy was just a dazzling boy and a remarkable young man. I would come home from the Hill and have dinner with Sarah and anybody else who was around and then everybody would go off to sleep and I would pretty much start working through the night. I couldn’t really sleep anyway and so the book was written in several months of a fit of insomnia. I was experiencing kind of an emotional whiplash from all of these events. Jamie Raskin calls during a subcommittee hearing in late 2021 for reform of the civil asset forfeiture system, calling it “Byzantine, Orwellian and Kafka-esque" and unfair to those most affected by property seizures.
HOUSE IMPEACHMENT MANAGER RASKIN TRIAL
I had been through these extraordinary traumas of losing our beloved Tommy and living through the violent insurrection and attempted coup on January 6 and then leading the impeachment managers in the Senate trial of Donald Trump. I feel like the book chose me more than I chose it. Why did you decide a book would be a good way to work through these moments?Ī: I’ve written several other books before, but this one was completely different because it’s far more personal. Q: I want to start by talking about the basis of the lecture which is your new book “Unthinkable.” It’s about deeply personal and difficult moments. Raskin spoke with The Eagle about how he’s made it through the last year, how he’s preparing for the coming midterm elections and the obstacles before the nation. The event is sold out, but available in real time online. Raskin’s new best-selling memoir, “Unthinkable,” serves as the basis of the memorial Mona Sherman Lecture he’ll deliver for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute on Saturday at 5 p.m. The committee will begin public hearings June 9. He continues to serve on the House select committee investigating the Jan. Instead, Raskin told The Eagle, in the last year he’s become even more determined to uphold democratic ideals. The loss of his son, and the threats to the nation’s democracy, could have been enough to overwhelm the three-term congressman.
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