Jasmine Crockett

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 as a member of the Democratic Party.

In a 2020 interview she said she changed career path due to experiencing a series of alleged hate crimes while attending college and subsequently being represented by the Cochran Law Firm.

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.

[11] 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.

[23][24] 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.

[25][26][27] 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 of a bathroom (and other locations lacking security), to which she remarked, "These are our national secrets—looks like in the shitter to me.

In an Oversight Committee hearing on May 16, 2024, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene responded to a barb by Crockett: "I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you're reading."

On August 19, 2024, the first night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Crockett spoke about Republican nominee Donald Trump, and asked, "will a vindictive vile villain violate voters' vision?

Crockett (right) poses with Speaker of the U.S. House Nancy Pelosi (center) and Texas State Representative Trey Martinez Fischer (left) in 2021.
Crockett supports supplying military aid to the Ukrainian military during its war with Russia .