If Democrats retake control of the House of Representatives in November with Leader Hakeem Jeffries at the helm, Jamie Raskin and other committee leaders are poised and ready, plotting their investigations for 2025.
Raskin is particularly well positioned as his panel, the House Oversight Committee, has gradually become the House’s go-to investigative body.
Raskin told Axios that they already have a good outline based on what they have been asking Republicans to investigate but have refused to do so.
- This would include hearings on policy issues such as gun control, climate change and Supreme Court ethics, in order to persuade the public on the merits of action.
- Raskin would also like to pursue investigations of Jared Kushner’s business dealings, as well as Trump’s business dealings when he was President in pursuit of anti-corruption legislation.
Here’s Raskin in 2023, on Trump and Jared’s dealings:
Raskin would like to use the January 6 Committee, in which he was a member, as a “role model” for future probes.
- “One of the things I loved about my experience on the Jan. 6 committee was that we elevated the mission generally above just the little soap boxes that each member gets,” he said.
- Raskin contrasted the January 6 mission with that of the GOP-led “food fights segmented into five-minute blocs.”
