He buried his son a week ago. Now Jamie Raskin is leading the impeachment charge.
Meagan Flynn and Erin Cox, The Washington Post
Jan. 12, 2021
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., are shown at a news conference on Oct. 9, 2020.Photo for The Washington Post by Sarah Silbiger
He returned home sometime after 4 a.m. on Thursday, after Congress finished certifying the election results in the shadow of a mob invasion, and tried to get some rest.
"I haven't been sleeping a lot since we've been without Tommy," Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., admitted.
It had been a week since his 25-year-old son, Thomas Bloom Raskin, died by suicide, less than two days since they buried him, and just over 12 hours since Raskin took cover with his daughter and son-in-law at the U.S. Capitol as thousands of Trump supporters ransacked the building and fatally attacked police.