A Conversation with Congressman Jamie Raskin

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Please Join Us for a Conversation between Journalist Andrea Bernstein and Representative Jamie Raskin on January Sixth, Truth, and the Rule of Law.

The United States is experiencing unprecedented challenges to its institutions: democracy, academia, journalism and the role of courts in society are all under threat. As we navigate these challenging times, The Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) at Bennington College will be convening the best thinkers and policy makers at all levels of government for ongoing dialogue. 

Please join us on Thursday, October 23, at 7:00 pm at the Center for Public Action at Bennington College as we begin this series with a conversation between U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and journalist Andrea Bernstein on upholding truth and the rule of law. Among the topics of discussion: President Trump’s efforts to rewrite the historical record of the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by, among other things, pardoning some 1,500 convicted criminals who played a role in the assault, firing prosecutors and FBI agents who worked on the investigations, and threatening to prosecute political opponents.

Jamie Raskin (D) represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District. After the violent insurrection at the Capitol in January 2021, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed Rep. Raskin as the lead impeachment manager in the second impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump, the fourth Member of Congress to serve as a lead presidential impeachment manager in American history. Rep. Raskin was subsequently appointed to serve on the bipartisan Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol and led its legal and constitutional team. He is currently the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and is the author of Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy.

Andrea Bernstein is a Peabody and duPont-Columbia award-winning journalist, author and professor, including serving as a 2024 Presidential Fellow at Bennington College. She covered all five Trump trials in New York for NPR, co-hosted four narrative podcasts—including Trump, Inc. and Will Be Wild, an investigation into the forces that led to the January 6 attack—and is the author of the New York Times-bestselling book: American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power.

The mission of The Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College (CAPA) is to educate undergraduate students in public action; to be a catalyst, convener, and creative space for social change; and to design solutions to the urgent social, political, and environmental problems of our time.