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 serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 30th congressional district since 2023. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

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In the 118th Congress, Crockett served as the Democratic freshman class representative between the House Democratic leadership and the approximately 35 newly-elected Democratic members. [1] Crockett was a co-chair of the 2024 Harris–Walz campaign [2] and is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. [3]

Crockett previously represented the 100th district in the Texas House of Representatives. Prior to that, she was a public defender for Bowie County, Texas, and had previously practiced law in a private firm.

Early life and career

Crockett was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to parents Rev. Joseph and Gwen Crockett. [4] She attended Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School and Rosati-Kain, an all-girls Catholic high school in St. Louis. [5]

Education

Attending Rhodes College, she was advised by a professor that she had too much personality to settle for her plan to become a certified public accountant. The school's handling of a series of hate crimes on campus inspired her to become a lawyer, when she got racist hate mail and her Black friends' cars were keyed. [6] She explained, "My school didn't know what to do, and they brought in The Cochran Firm, and the lawyer that helped me became my instant 'shero'. ... While we never figured out what happened, it was empowering to have her there. I saw how much help a lawyer could be to somebody at a very confusing time." [7] She graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration. [8]

She began law school at Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University before graduating from the University of Houston Law Center in 2006 with a Juris Doctor and soon passed the bar examination. [9] She was a member of the National Bar Association and of the Dallas Black Criminal Bar Association. [8]

Career

She became a public defender for Bowie County and later formed a law firm, which handled car accident lawsuits and took pro bono cases for Black Lives Matter activists. [7]

Personal life and family

Crockett is a Baptist [10] [11] and a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. [12]

Texas House of Representatives

In 2019, after Eric Johnson vacated his seat in the Texas House to become 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. [13] 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. [14] [15]

U.S. House of Representatives

Texas State Representative Trey Martinez Fischer, Speaker of the U.S. House Nancy Pelosi, and Crockett posed in 2021. Nancy Pelosi Honors Texas House Democrats (cropped).jpg
Texas State Representative Trey Martinez Fischer, Speaker of the U.S. House Nancy Pelosi, and Crockett posed 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. [16] Four days later, Crockett declared her candidacy for the seat. Johnson simultaneously announced that she was backing Crockett. [17] [18] 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. [19] In the Democratic primary election, Crockett and Jane Hope Hamilton, an aide to U.S. representative Marc Veasey, advanced to a runoff election, [20] which Crockett won. [21] She then won the general election on November 8. [22] Crockett was chosen to be the 118th Congress's freshman class representative. [1]

Tenure

Crockett supports military aid to Ukraine during its war with Russia. Jasmine Crockett Ukraine flag April 2024 (cropped).jpg
Crockett supports military aid to Ukraine during its war with Russia.

In a 2023 impeachment hearing for President Joe Biden, Crockett accused fellow congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans of hypocrisy. She claimed that those launching the impeachment inquiry, and those who brought-forth charges against Biden, were ignoring documented evidence of President Donald Trump's own criminal offenses; she displayed photos from the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, depicting Trump storing classified documents inside a bathroom (and in other locations lacking security), to which she remarked, "These are our national secrets—looks like in the shitter to me." [23] [24] [25]

Crockett addressed the 2024 Democratic National Convention and referenced the incident. When comparing Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris to Trump, the Republican nominee, she said of the latter, "He keeps national secrets next to his thinking chair—y'all know what I said the other time." [26] She won a second term to House of Representatives in 2024. [27]

In March 2025, Crockett called Governor Greg Abbott, who is handicapped and uses a wheelchair, "Governor Hot Wheels" and a "Hot Ass Mess" at a speech onstage during Human Rights Campaign's annual dinner. Crockett denied that the comment had to do with Abbott's condition, instead saying that it referenced the "planes, trains, and automobiles" he used to transfer migrants to Democratic communities. In response, Abbott stated: "It's another day and another disaster by the Democrats." [28] Representative Randy Weber filed a censure resolution against Crockett. [29]

In June 2025, Crockett announced her candidacy for Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. She later withdrew from the race to become the Ranking Member after placing last in the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee vote. [30]

Caucus memberships

Committee assignments

Current
Past

Policy positions

Firearms

Crocket owns a firearm and is licensed to carry, though supports a ban on assault weapons, having stated "it’s the equivalent of some of these people having a cannon.... People literally have almost no chance of surviving when some of these weapons are used." [36] She acknowledges that passage of an assault weapons ban in Texas is likely not politically achievable. [37]

Electoral history

2020 Texas's 100th state house district Democratic primary [38]
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 [38]
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 [38]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Jasmine Crockett 45,550 100.0
Total votes45,550 100.0
2022 Texas's 30th congressional district Democratic primary [38]
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 [38]
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 [38]
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
2024 Texas's 30th congressional district Democratic primary [38]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Jasmine Crockett 43,059 91.5
Democratic Jarred Davis3,9828.5
Total votes47,041 100.0
2024 Texas's 30th congressional district election [38]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Jasmine Crockett 197,650 84.9
Libertarian Jrmar Jefferson35,17515.1
Total votes232,825 100.0

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Alvey, Rebekah (December 1, 2022). "Dallas Rep.-elect Jasmine Crockett chosen for freshman House leadership role". The Dallas Morning News. Archived from the original on December 2, 2022. Retrieved December 2, 2022.
  2. ↑ Simmerman, Alexis (August 30, 2024). "Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Dallas named national co-chair for Harris-Walz campaign". Austin American-Statesman. Archived from the original on November 21, 2024. Retrieved November 21, 2024.
  3. ↑ Solender, Andrew (January 22, 2025). "Congress set to face chaos with Marjorie Taylor Greene-led DOGE subcommittee". Axios. Archived from the original on January 23, 2025. Retrieved February 7, 2025.
  4. ↑ "Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett Is Sworn In to 119th Congress (PHOTOS) | Representative Crockett". crockett.house.gov. January 3, 2025. Archived from the original on March 4, 2025. Retrieved February 14, 2025.
  5. ↑ Robinson-Jacobs, Karen (February 16, 2022). "North County native, Texas transplant, sets sights on Congress". St. Louis American. Archived from the original on June 6, 2023. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
  6. ↑ Newsource, C. N. N. (July 23, 2021). "Why Texas's lone Black freshman Democrat refuses to give up on the fight for voting rights". KVIA. Archived from the original on February 21, 2025. Retrieved March 8, 2025.
  7. 1 2 "Civil Rights Attorney Jasmine Crockett Is Making Waves as a Texas State Representative". Darling . September 21, 2020. Archived from the original on October 25, 2020. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
  8. 1 2 "Jasmine Crockett". Ballotpedia. Archived from the original on May 20, 2021. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
  9. ↑ "Bioguide Search". bioguide.congress.gov.
  10. ↑ "Religious affiliation of members of 118th Congress" (PDF). PEW Research Center. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 16, 2023. Retrieved May 13, 2023.
  11. ↑ "Faith on the Hill: The religious composition of the 118th Congress". Pew Research Center. Archived from the original on October 2, 2019. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
  12. ↑ "MEET JASMINE – Jasmine For US". www.jasmineforus.com. Archived from the original on May 18, 2024. Retrieved February 7, 2025.
  13. ↑ "Texas state legislative special elections, 2019". Ballotpedia . Archived from the original on February 9, 2023. Retrieved September 29, 2023.
  14. ↑ Svitek, Patrick (July 21, 2020). "State Rep. Lorraine Birabil concedes after primary runoff defeat". The Texas Tribune. Archived from the original on November 10, 2020. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
  15. ↑ Lueckemeyer, Olivia (July 14, 2020). "Jasmine Felicia Crockett edges out narrow victory over incumbent Lorraine Birabil in race for House District 100". impact. Archived from the original on November 10, 2020. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
  16. ↑ Vakil, Caroline (November 20, 2021). "Texas Democrat Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson announces retirement at end of term". The Hill . Archived from the original on January 13, 2022. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
  17. ↑ Svitek, Patrick (November 24, 2021). "Freshman state Rep. Jasmine Crockett is running for Dallas congressional seat, with Eddie Bernice Johnson's backing". The Texas Tribune . Archived from the original on November 24, 2021. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
  18. ↑ Caldwell, Emily; Marfin, Catherine (November 24, 2021). "Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett seeking Dallas U.S. House seat with Eddie Bernice Johnson's endorsement". The Dallas Morning News . Archived from the original on November 24, 2021. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
  19. ↑ Svitek, Patricia (February 11, 2022). "Cryptocurrency traders' super PACs give $2 million boost to state Rep. Jasmine Crockett's congressional run". The Texas Tribune. Archived from the original on January 4, 2023. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
  20. ↑ Zhang, Andrew (May 17, 2022). "Underdog Jane Hope Hamilton angling for an upset against Jasmine Crockett in Dallas-area congressional primary". The Texas Tribune. Archived from the original on December 2, 2022. Retrieved December 2, 2022.
  21. ↑ Livingston, Abby (May 25, 2022). "Jasmine Crockett secures Democratic nomination to succeed U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson". The Texas Tribune. Archived from the original on December 2, 2022. Retrieved December 2, 2022.
  22. ↑ "Democrat Jasmine Crockett wins race to succeed retiring Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson". The Dallas Morning News. November 8, 2022. Archived from the original on December 2, 2022. Retrieved December 2, 2022.
  23. ↑ Irwin, Lauren (September 28, 2023). "Democrat in impeachment hearing calls out GOP for ignoring Trump charges". The Hill . Archived from the original on August 22, 2024. Retrieved August 22, 2024.
  24. ↑ Garcia, Eric (June 20, 2024). "Jasmine Crockett wants to prove that Democrats aren't weak". The Independent .
  25. ↑ Huber, Craig (September 29, 2023). "Rep. Jasmine Crocket rebukes Republicans during impeachment hearing". spectrumlocalnews.com. Archived from the original on August 22, 2024. Retrieved August 22, 2024.
  26. ↑ "DNC 2024 live updates: Democratic convention kicks off; Hillary Clinton addresses delegates". NBC News . August 20, 2024.
  27. ↑ "Jasmine Crockett wins reelection against third-party opponent". Dallas Morning News . November 5, 2024. Archived from the original on November 6, 2024. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
  28. ↑ "Rep. Jasmine Crockett defends 'Governor Hot Wheels' comments about Abbott amid censure threat". ABC News. Retrieved March 26, 2025.
  29. ↑ Fullerton, Adam (March 26, 2025). "Censure resolution filed against Rep. Jasmine Crockett over 'Governor Hot Wheels' comment". FOX 4. Retrieved March 26, 2025.
  30. ↑ Dahlkamp, By Owen (June 24, 2025). "Rep. Jasmine Crockett drops bid for influential post on House oversight panel". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved July 5, 2025.
  31. ↑ "Caucus Members". Black Maternal Health Caucus. Retrieved July 14, 2025.
  32. ↑ "Memberships". Congressional Black Caucus. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  33. ↑ "Congressional Equality Members". February 22, 2023. Archived from the original on February 22, 2023. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
  34. ↑ "Progressive Caucus". Progressive Caucus. Archived from the original on December 3, 2022. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
  35. ↑ "Membership". Congressional Caucus for the Equal Rights Amendment. Archived from the original on September 18, 2024. Retrieved September 17, 2024.
  36. ↑ Smith, David (May 17, 2023). "'This is about saving lives': the Texas Democrat fighting for gun control and abortion rights". The Guardian . Guardian News & Media Limited. Retrieved July 14, 2025.
  37. ↑ Booker, Brakkton. "She's progressive. But don't call her "The Squad"". Politico . Retrieved July 14, 2025.
  38. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Official Results". Archived from the original on November 8, 2019. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
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