Jasmine Crockett
Jasmine Felicia Crockett is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 30th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented the 100th district in the Texas House of Representatives from 2021 to 2023.
After graduating from Rhodes College with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration and earning a Juris Doctor from the University of Houston Law Center, Crockett was a public defender for Bowie County, Texas, and later worked as a personal injury lawyer before her entry into electoral politics. She was elected to the Texas House in 2020, succeeding Mayor Eric Johnson. In 2022, Crockett was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing a majority-minority district based in Dallas. Among her assignments, in 2025, Crockett was seated on the Subcommittee on Oversight of the United States House Committee on the Judiciary.
Crockett is a candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas for 2026, with her announcement of candidacy in December 2025 gaining widespread coverage.
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Early life and career
Crockett was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to parents Rev. Joseph and Gwen Crockett. She attended Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School and Rosati-Kain Academy, a private all-girls Catholic high school in St. Louis.While Crockett was performing in Little Shop of Horrors at Rhodes College, a professor recognized her public speaking ability and encouraged her to join mock trial, where she began developing her legal voice. 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 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." She graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration.
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. She was a member of the National Bar Association and of the Dallas Black Criminal Bar Association.
Following her education, Crockett became a public defender for Bowie County, Texas and later formed a law firm, which handled car accident lawsuits and took pro bono cases for Black Lives Matter activists.
Texas House of Representatives (2021–2023)
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. 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.In the summer of 2021, Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives, including Crockett, organized a quorum-bust in an attempt to stop the passage of legislation they saw as restricting voting rights in the state. These representatives flew to Washington, D.C. to lobby the Senate to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the For the People Act, which would have superseded parts of the state legislation. As the weeks went by, Crockett was one of the most vocal opponents of state representatives returning to the state before the Senate passed the legislation.
During her tenure three bills she co-authored became law. These included legislation that wipes certain in-court fees for recently incarcerated persons, criminalizes financial abuse of the elderly, and requiring state agencies to publish online summaries of rule changes.
U.S. House of Representatives (2023–present)
Elections
2022
On November 20, 2021, incumbent representative Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas's 30th congressional district announced she would not seek reelection in 2022. Four days later, Crockett declared her candidacy for the seat. Johnson simultaneously announced that she was backing Crockett. Crockett also received extensive financial support from Super PACs aligned with the cryptocurrency industry, with Sam Bankman-Fried's Protect Our Future PAC giving in support of her campaign. In the Democratic primary election, Crockett and Jane Hope Hamilton, an aide to U.S. representative Marc Veasey, advanced to a runoff election, which Crockett won. She then won the general election on November 8.Tenure
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, to which she remarked, "These are our national secrets—looks like in the shitter to me."During the 118th Congress, Crockett served as the Democratic freshman class representative between the House Democratic leadership and the approximately 35 newly-elected Democratic members.
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." She won a second term to House of Representatives in 2024. She was a co-chair of the 2024 Harris–Walz campaign.
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." Representative Randy Weber filed a censure resolution against Crockett.
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.
Caucus memberships
- Black Maternal Health Caucus
- Congressional Black Caucus
- Congressional Equality Caucus
- Congressional Progressive Caucus
- Congressional Caucus for the Equal Rights Amendment
- Congressional Ukraine Caucus
Committee assignments
; Current- Committee on the Judiciary
- * Subcommittee on Oversight
- Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
- * Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency
- * Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce
- Committee on Agriculture
- * Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development
- * Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit
- * Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture
- Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government