‘Donald Trump will get his comeuppance’

Defending democracy will take expanding voting rights, scrapping the Electoral College and prosecuting those — including former President Donald Trump — behind the attempt to subvert government on Jan. 6, 2021, says U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin.

“There is only one solution to that in American history, which is to organize people and win elections and take the government back,” Raskin said Tuesday in Northampton.

He also took aim at the filibuster, which allows the Republican minority in Congress to bottle up legislation, and the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, which allows nearly unlimited money in politics.

Raskin referenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous aphorism that the “arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”

“Donald Trump will get his comeuppance,” Raskin said.

The Maryland Democrat and U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern, D-Worcester, hosted a town hall discussion on the theme of “Defending Our Democracy,” drawing more than 600 people to First Churches of Northampton, appearing to applause and standing ovations.

Raskin is a constitutional law scholar who served as the lead impeachment manager during Trump’s second trial, the impeachment that sought to hold the former president to account for inciting the insurrection at the Capitol after he lost the 2020 election. He now serves on the House committee investigating the events of Jan. 6, 2021.

“Pay attention to our hearings in June,” Raskin said after giving a brief description of the plots and connivance to overturn the election of Joe Biden. “You will hear and see things that have not been heard or seen before.”

The House committee has laid out an argument for a criminal case against Trump, pressuring U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to move.

Raskin said the Justice Department has already brought charges against more than 800 others, and has gotten convictions. He said the cases are progressing like mafia investigations, starting with foot soldiers and moving up the chain of command. But he said Trump has insulated himself with layers of lawyers and underlings.

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