“With all this love infusing Tommy’s world and soul, girls quickly came to fancy this magical boy who always made time for the loneliest kids in class and frequently made up his own words to describe feelings and parts of toasters-and, to be clear, he took a strong liking to girls too, these omnipresent magical lovely girls he found who always had a profound beauty radiating from within. “Over the years he was enveloped in the love not only of his bedazzled and starstruck parents but of his remarkable and adoring sisters, Hannah the older and Tabitha the younger, a huge pack of cousins, including Jedd, Emily, Maggie, Zacky, Mariah, Phoebe and Lily, Boman and Daisy, and Emmet and spoiled rotten with hugs and kisses and philosophical nourishment from his grandparents Herb and Arlene Bloom, Marcus Raskin, Barbara Raskin, and later Lynn Raskin, the best aunts and uncles a mischievous ragamuffin could ask for, including Erika and Keith, Kenneth and Abby, Mina, Noah and Heather, Eden and Brandon, and Tammy and Gary, and a cast of secondary parents who wrapped him in adoration and wildly precocious conversation like Michael and Donene, Ann and Jimmy, Kate and Hal, Kathleen and Tom, Katharine and David, Judy, Reed and Julia, Dar and Michael, David and Melinda, Angela and Howard, Helen, Sheila, Mitchell, Will and Camille, Phyllis, Shammy, Khalid and Zina. Tommy grew up as a strikingly beautiful curly-haired madcap boy beaming with laughter and charm, making mischief, kicking the soccer ball in the goal, acting out scenes from To Kill A Mockingbird with his little sister in his father’s constitutional law class, teaching other children the names of all the Justices on the Supreme Court, hugging strangers on the street, teaching our dogs foreign languages, running up and down the aisle on airplanes giving people high fives, playing jazz piano like a blues great from Bourbon Street, and at 12 writing a detailed brief to his mother explaining why he should not have to do a Bar Mitzvah and citing Due Process liberty interests (appeal rejected). “On January 30, 1995, Thomas Bloom Raskin was born to ecstatic parents who saw him enter the world like a blue-eyed cherub, a little angel. He won the seat in the 2016 election.12 arrested at University of Mary Washington during Pro-Palestinian protest Raskin represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District, which is located in Montgomery County. All our thoughts are with the Raskin family, and we pray for support to envelop them in this unimaginable time.” “Tommy was an incredible and brilliant beam of light. “My heart completely shatters for my dear friend, Sarah, and their family in this devastating loss,” Rep. I ask all Marylanders to keep the Raskin family in your prayers,” Hogan said in a tweet. “The First Lady and I extend our deepest sympathies over this heartbreaking loss. “The family is grateful for the outpouring of support and love from neighbors, constituents, and friends but asks everyone to observe strict COVID-19 protocols during this time of grief,” the statement said, adding that funeral and memorial service arrangements will be released “in due course.”Īmong those to express their condolences was Maryland Gov. In addition to his parents, Tommy Bloom Raskin is survived by his sisters, Hannah and Tabitha, and grandparents Arlene Bloom and Lynn Raskin. We are devastated and demolished to be without him,” Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, said in a New Year’s Eve statement along with his wife, Sarah Bloom Raskin.

He passionately loved his family, friends, and animals, and was devoted to the cause of the global poor.

His brilliance and compassion knew no bounds. Thomas Bloom Raskin was a second-year student at Harvard Law School and a graduate of Amherst College. Jamie Raskin and his wife announced the death of their 25-year-old son on Thursday.

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