![]() ![]() His family organized a day of community service in his. 6 insurrection, would have been 27 on Sunday. Raskin accepted the high-profile assignment to make the. Tommy Raskin graduated from Amherst College and was a student at Harvard Law School when he died. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) who died by suicide a week before the Jan. The Capitol riot came just days after Raskin’s 25-year-old son, Thomas Bloom Raskin, a student at Harvard Law School, died by suicide. Raskin then lived through the assault on the Capitol. The post noted Tommy Raskin’s many interests and volunteer gigs, including teaching Sunday school at Temple Emanuel in Chevy Chase, a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C., and at J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group. Days before the riot, his son, Tommy, 25 and a student at Harvard Law, died from suicide on New Year’s Eve. Jamie Raskin and his wife Sarah on Monday published a heart-wrenching tribute to their late son, confirming that the 25-year-old took his own life last week after a long battle with. representative for Marylands 8th congressional district since 2017. Thomas Raskin, aka Tommy Raskin, is the son of an American lawyer and politician, serving as the U.S. “He ordered and devoured books on the Civil War and Maryland’s history in it, World War II and resistance to Nazism, Jewish history, libertarianism, moral philosophy, the history of the Middle East conflict, peace movements, anything by Gar Alperovitz on the decision to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and anything by Peter Singer on animal rights.” On the last day of December 2020, a 25-year-old Harvard law student Thomas Raskin died by suicide. “Tommy grew up as a strikingly beautiful curly-haired madcap boy beaming with laughter and charm, making mischief, kicking the soccer ball in the goal, acting out scenes from To Kill A Mockingbird with his little sister in his father’s constitutional law class, teaching other children the names of all the Justices on the Supreme Court, hugging strangers on the street, teaching our dogs foreign languages, running up and down the aisle on airplanes giving people high fives, playing jazz piano like a blues great from Bourbon Street, and at 12 writing a detailed brief to his mother explaining why he should not have to do a Bar Mitzvah and citing Due Process liberty interests (appeal rejected),” the post said. ![]()
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