When filmmaker Madeleine Carter approached her friend Jamie Raskin about a documentary, she saw it as the chronicles of a newly elected member of Congress who was a gadfly to President Donald Trump. Two impeachments, one attack on the Capitol, and an unfathomable family tragedy later, the result, “Love and the Constitution,” narrates our shared history of the tumultuous last few years through Raskin’s political and personal journey.
A self-described “disheveled” constitutional law professor, Raskin has been at the center of the country’s most consequential debates since being elected to Congress in 2016. A member of the House Judiciary Committee, the Maryland Democrat helped formulate the articles of impeachment that led to Trump’s first impeachment in 2019. He did the same for the second impeachment, for inciting the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol, and Raskin served as lead impeachment manager for the trial that followed.
