

He graduated from Georgetown Day School in 1979 at age 16, and magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts in government with concentration in political theory.

Raskin's ancestors immigrated to the U.S. Kennedy on the National Security Council, co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies, and a progressive activist. His mother was a journalist and novelist, and his father was a former staff aide to President John F. His name is a variant of that of his paternal grandfather, Benjamin Raskin. Jamin Ben Raskin was born to a Jewish family in Washington, D.C., on December 13, 1962, to Barbara (née Bellman) Raskin and Marcus Raskin. program on law and government and co-founded the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project. Before his election to Congress, Raskin was a constitutional law professor at American University Washington College of Law, where he co-founded and directed the LL.M. He was the lead impeachment manager (prosecutor) for the second impeachment of President Donald Trump in response to the attack on the U.S. Raskin co-chairs the Congressional Freethought Caucus.

Since redistricting in 2022, Raskin's district now encompasses only part of Montgomery County. The district previously included portions of Montgomery County, a suburban county northwest of Washington, D.C., and extended through rural Frederick County to the Pennsylvania border. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Maryland State Senate from 2007 to 2016. representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district since 2017. Jamin Ben Raskin (born December 13, 1962) is an American attorney, law professor, and politician serving as the U.S.
