High school student Marco Hunter-Lopez embarrasses Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) during a House hearing on Wednesday. Credit: House Judiciary GOP
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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) ended up embarrassed by a high school student during a hearing today while trying to lecture him on the nation’s founding documents, religion, and heritage.
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution and Limited Government held a hearing on Wednesday called, “Sharia-Free America: Why Political Islam & Sharia Law are Incompatible with the U.S. Constitution: Part II.” The hearing looked into how Sharia law’s rise in our country poses grave risks to our way of life and system of government.
As the Gateway Pundit reported earlier, 16-year-old high school sophomore Marco Hunter-Lopez blew the lid off the radical left’s blatant double standard in Texas public schools: conservative students get censored, harassed, and stonewalled for months, while Islamic groups get the royal treatment to push “Understanding Shariah” pamphlets, Qurans with conversion cards, and hijabs right in the lunchroom.
Raskin was not pleased with this brave young person’s truth-telling and decided to bully him viciously. He began by rudely trying to give Hunter-Lopez a history lesson on America’s founding documents while twisting his words and trying to make him look like a religious nut.
But this backfired later when Raskin cited a famous letter by Thomas Jefferson in which he proclaimed a wall of separation between church and state, in an attempt to drive home his secular view of American history. Hunter-Lopez interrupted him, noting that this was a letter rather than an actual law.
Raskin was caught off guard and dumbly asked whether he thought America should be a theocracy. After not receiving the answer he wanted, Raskin interrupted and filibustered for several seconds before getting into a debate over American heritage.
This did not go well for Raskin either.
WATCH:
OMG. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D) just got HUMILIATED by 16-year-old patriot Marco Hunter-Lopez, despite Raskin CONSTANTLY cutting him off during the Sharia Law hearing
RASKIN: Jefferson described in the letter to Danbury Baptist—
LOPEZ: That’s a letter, not a law.
RASKIN: So your… pic.twitter.com/Kzmc6CwElj
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 13, 2026
RASKIN: Are you aware that the Constitution forbids the establishment of a religion? Are you aware that it doesn’t mention God?
HUNTER-LOPEZ: The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times…
RASKIN: Is the Declaration of Independence law?
HUNTER-LOPEZ: The Declaration of Independence was declaring our independence from tyranny…
RASKIN: Yeah. The Constitution is the governing body.
HUNTER-LOPEZ: I’m not suggesting we have to go back to taking tests or…
RASKIN: Did you know that Thomas Jefferson was denounced as an infidel who wrote the Declaration of Independence…America proclaimed the separation of church and state. Jefferson described in the letter to Danbury Baptist…
HUNTER-LOPEZ: That was a letter, not a law.
RASKIN: So, your position is that America is a theocracy?
HUNTER-LOPEZ: You didn’t let me finish my original statement. I’m not saying we need to go back to anything in writing. What I am saying is we need to acknowledge…
RASKIN: I think we should go back to something in writing. We should go back to the First Amendment.
(crosstalk)
HUNTER-LOPEZ: We do need to acknowledge our Christian heritage in America.
RASKIN: You can acknowledge any heritage you want, but you can’t impose an establishment of religion on other people.
HUNTER-LOPEZ: I’m not suggesting that at all. I’m saying we should just acknowledge our heritage.
RASKIN: Everyone can acknowledge their own heritage.
HUNTER-LOPEZ: American heritage, not just any heritage.
RASKIN: You don’t think you’re allowed to acknowledge your Christian heritage, your Jewish heritage, or your Muslim heritage?
HUNTER-LOPEZ: I’m saying members of Congress need to acknowledge American heritage.
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