Jasmine Crockett

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Member of the U.S.HouseofRepresentatives
from Texas's 30th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2023

Jasmine Felicia Crockett (born March 29, 1981) is an American lawyer and politician who has been a U.S. representative from Texas's 30th congressional district since January 2023. Her district covers most of South Dallas County, Central Dallas, Dallas Love Field Airport, and parts of Tarrant County. A member of the Democratic Party, Crockett previously represented the 100th district in the Texas House of Representatives.

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In the 118th Congress, Crockett serves as the Democratic freshman class representative between the House Democratic leadership and the (approximately) 35 newly-elected Democratic members. [1]

Early life and career

Crockett was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and attended Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School and Rosati-Kain, an all-girls Catholic high school in St. Louis. [2] She graduated from Rhodes College in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration. As an undergraduate, Crockett planned to become an anesthesiologist or certified public accountant before deciding to attend law school, which she stated was due to experiencing a hate crime while attending college. [3] She later attended the University of Houston Law Center, graduating in 2006 with a Juris Doctor. Crockett was a member of the National Bar Association, as well, with the Dallas Black Criminal Bar Association. [4]

Crockett completed law school and passed the bar shortly thereafter in 2006. She then became a public defender for Bowie County, and formed a law firm, which was notable for taking pro bono cases for Black Lives Matter activists. [3]

Crockett is a Baptist, [5] [6] and a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. [7]

Texas House of Representatives

In 2019, after Eric Johnson vacated his seat in the Texas House to serve as mayor of Dallas, a special election was held on November 5 with a runoff on January 28, 2020, for the remainder of his term, which Lorraine Birabil won. [8] Crockett challenged Birabil in the 2020 Democratic primary. She narrowly defeated Birabil in a primary runoff, advancing to the November 2020 general election, which she won unopposed. She assumed office in January 2021. [9] [10]

U.S. House of Representatives

Crockett (right) with Speaker of the U.S. House Nancy Pelosi (center) and Texas State Representative Trey Martinez Fischer (left) in 2021 Nancy Pelosi Honors Texas House Democrats.jpg
Crockett (right) with Speaker of the U.S. House Nancy Pelosi (center) and Texas State Representative Trey Martinez Fischer (left) in 2021

Elections

2022

On November 20, 2021, incumbent U.S. representative Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas's 30th congressional district announced she would not seek reelection in 2022. [11] Four days later, Crockett declared her candidacy for the seat. Johnson simultaneously announced that she was backing Crockett. [12] [13] Crockett also received extensive financial support from Super PACs aligned with the cryptocurrency industry, with Sam Bankman-Fried's Protect Our Future PAC giving $1 million in support of her campaign. [14] In the Democratic primary election, Crockett and Jane Hope Hamilton, an aide to Marc Veasey, advanced to a runoff election, [15] which Crockett won. [16] She then won the general election on November 8. [17] Crockett was chosen to be the 118th Congress's freshman class representative. [1]

Tenure

Crockett supports supplying military aid to the Ukrainian military during their war with Russia. Jasmine Crockett Ukraine flag April 2024.jpg
Crockett supports supplying military aid to the Ukrainian military during their war with Russia.

Crockett was among the 46 Democrats who voted against the final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in the House. [18] She voted to provide Israel with support, following the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. [19] [20]

Crockett voted in-favor of three military aid package supplementals for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, respectively, in April 2024, along with most of her fellow Democrats. [21] [22] [23]

In a 2023 impeachment hearing for President Biden, Crockett criticized fellow congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans for being hypocritical. She claimed that those launching the impeachment inquiry, and those who brought-forth charges against President Biden, were ignoring documented evidence of President Trump's own criminal offenses; she displayed photos from the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, depicting Trump storing classified documents inside of a bathroom (and other locations lacking security), to which she remarked, "These are our national secrets—looks like in the shitter to me." [24] [25] [26]

Crockett addressed the 2024 Democratic National Convention and referenced the incident. When comparing Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris to Republican nominee Donald Trump, she said of the latter, "He keeps national secrets next to his thinking chair—y'all know what I said the other time." [27]

Caucus memberships

Committee assignments

Rhetorical style

Crockett has been noted for her (at times, comedic) use of alliteration. In an Oversight Committee hearing on May 16, 2024, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene remarked, unprovoked, to Crockett: "I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you're reading." Committee chairman James Comer ruled that this remark did not violate House protocol. To clarify the limits on personal comments, Crockett asked "If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?" [31] [32] Comer responded with "... a what?" On August 19, 2024, the first night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Crockett, speaking on Republican nominee Donald Trump, asked, "will a vindictive vile villain violate voters' vision?" [33]

Electoral history

2020 Texas's 100th state house district Democratic primary [34]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Lorraine Birabil (incumbent) 4,566 29.3
Democratic Jasmine Crockett 4,030 25.9
Democratic Sandra Crenshaw2,94418.9
Democratic Daniel Davis Clayton1,66510.9
Democratic James Armstrong III1,3158.5
Democratic Paul Stafford1,0466.7
Total votes15,566 100.0
2020 Texas's 100th state house district Democratic primary runoff [34]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Jasmine Crockett 5,171 50.4
Democratic Lorraine Birabil (incumbent)5,08149.6
Total votes10,252 100.0
2020 Texas's 100th state house district election [34]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Jasmine Crockett 45,550 100.0
Total votes45,550 100.0
2022 Texas's 30th congressional district Democratic primary [34]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Jasmine Crockett 26,798 48.5
Democratic Jane Hope Hamilton 9,436 17.1
Democratic Keisha Williams-Lankford4,3237.8
Democratic Barbara Mallory Caraway 4,2777.7
Democratic Abel Mulugheta3,2845.9
Democratic Roy Williams2,7465.0
Democratic Vonciel Hill1,8863.4
Democratic Jessica Mason1,8583.4
Democratic Arthur Dixon6771.2
Total votes55,285 100.0
2022 Texas's 30th congressional district Democratic primary runoff [34]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Jasmine Crockett 17,462 60.6
Democratic Jane Hope Hamilton11,36939.4
Total votes28,831 100.0
2022 Texas's 30th congressional district election [34]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Jasmine Crockett 134,876 74.72
Republican James Rodgers39,20921.72
Independent Zachariah Manning3,8202.12
Libertarian Phil Gray1,8701.04
Write-in Debbie Walker7380.41
Total votes180,513 100.0

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