Congressman Jamie Raskin: ‘The Founding Fathers would not have understood Trump’s immigration policy’

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On June 9, 2022, the day of the first hearing of the congressional committee in charge of investigating the U.S. Capitol attack, one of its members, the Democratic congressman Jamie Raskin, was there with a copy of Common Sense, by the philosopher and great debater Thomas Paine. “I carry it with me often, and return to it frequently during these dark days,” said Raskin, a representative for Maryland, in a conversation with EL PAÍS on Thursday.

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First page of the original edition of 'Common Sense', by Thomas Paine, published in Philadelphia in January 1776.
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