Talkin’ Humanist Politics with Senator Jamie Raskin (The Humanist Hour #114)

In this episode, Bo Bennett interviews Maryland State Senator Jamie Raskin about being a Humanist in politics. Raskin serves on the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee and is a professor of constitutional law and the first amendment at American University’s Washington College of Law. He is the bestselling author of Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court versus the American People, and We the Students: Supreme Court Cases For and About Students.

As a freshman senator, Raskin has seen more than a dozen of his bills pass into law, including a statewide civil rights law, the National Popular Vote plan for presidential elections, a law protecting tenants in condo conversions, a law establishing September 17th as Constitution and Bill of Rights Day, and a farm-to-schools initiative to get locally grown farm food into public schools.

Interview:
http://thehumanist.com/multimedia/podcast/the-humanist-hour-114-talkin-humanist-politics-with-senator-jamie-raskin