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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.
Jasmine Crockett | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 30th district | |
Assumed office January 3, 2023 | |
Preceded by | Eddie Bernice Johnson |
Member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 100th district | |
In office January 12, 2021 – January 3, 2023 | |
Preceded by | Lorraine Birabil |
Succeeded by | Venton Jones |
Personal details | |
Born | Jasmine Felicia Crockett March 29, 1981 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Education | Rhodes College (BA) University of Houston (JD) |
Website | House website Campaign website |
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Lorraine Birabil (incumbent) | 4,566 | 29.3 | |
Democratic | Jasmine Crockett | 4,030 | 25.9 | |
Democratic | Sandra Crenshaw | 2,944 | 18.9 | |
Democratic | Daniel Davis Clayton | 1,665 | 10.9 | |
Democratic | James Armstrong III | 1,315 | 8.5 | |
Democratic | Paul Stafford | 1,046 | 6.7 | |
Total votes | 15,566 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Jasmine Crockett | 5,171 | 50.4 | |
Democratic | Lorraine Birabil (incumbent) | 5,081 | 49.6 | |
Total votes | 10,252 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Jasmine Crockett | 45,550 | 100.0 | |
Total votes | 45,550 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Jasmine Crockett | 26,798 | 48.5 | |
Democratic | Jane Hope Hamilton | 9,436 | 17.1 | |
Democratic | Keisha Williams-Lankford | 4,323 | 7.8 | |
Democratic | Barbara Mallory Caraway | 4,277 | 7.7 | |
Democratic | Abel Mulugheta | 3,284 | 5.9 | |
Democratic | Roy Williams | 2,746 | 5.0 | |
Democratic | Vonciel Hill | 1,886 | 3.4 | |
Democratic | Jessica Mason | 1,858 | 3.4 | |
Democratic | Arthur Dixon | 677 | 1.2 | |
Total votes | 55,285 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jasmine Crockett | 17,462 | 60.6 | |
Democratic | Jane Hope Hamilton | 11,369 | 39.4 | |
Total votes | 28,831 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jasmine Crockett | 134,876 | 74.72 | |
Republican | James Rodgers | 39,209 | 21.72 | |
Independent | Zachariah Manning | 3,820 | 2.12 | |
Libertarian | Phil Gray | 1,870 | 1.04 | |
Write-in | Debbie Walker | 738 | 0.41 | |
Total votes | 180,513 | 100.0 |
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