Jasmine Crockett

Jasmine Felicia Crockett was born March 29, 1981, in St. Louis, Missouri. She earned a B.A. from Rhodes College in Memphis in 2003 and a J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center in 2006. Before entering elected office, she worked as a criminal-defense and civil-rights attorney, serving as a public defender in Bowie County, Texas from 2007 to 2010, then founding Crockett Law PLLC in 2010, a firm focused on civil-rights and police-misconduct cases, which she ran until 2022.

Crockett served in the Texas House of Representatives (District 100) from January 2021 to January 2023. She was sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives on January 3, 2023, representing Texas's 30th congressional district (Dallas) as a Democrat. In the 119th Congress she serves as Vice Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and as a member of its Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, as well as on the House Judiciary Committee, where she is Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Oversight. She was a national co-chair of the 2024 Harris, Walz presidential campaign.

Clashes with Nancy Mace

Crockett and Mace both serve on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and have clashed publicly on several occasions.

"Take it outside", January 14, 2025

At the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's organizational meeting for the 119th Congress, chaired by Rep. James Comer, Crockett offered an amendment to reinstate the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. During her remarks she criticized Mace's rhetoric on transgender people and said "and chile, listen." Mace, taking it as being called a child, cut in:

"Do not call me a child. I am no child. I am a grown woman. I am 47 years old. I have broken more glass ceilings than you ever have… If you want to take it outside, we can do that."

Comer gaveled for order. A Democratic member moved to have Mace's words "taken down" as inciting violence against another member. Comer later said the remark could simply mean stepping outside for "a cup of coffee, or maybe a beer." Mace said afterward that she meant taking the conversation off the floor for a more constructive discussion, not a physical confrontation, and that she never intended harm. Crockett's office said Mace had threatened physical violence; Crockett also publicly called Mace a "Karen."

Both members posted their accounts on X that evening.

If you want to come at me for going off - yeah - here I am going the f*ck off on Jasmine Crockett to protect women, particularly rape survivors. I will always hold the line.
Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) January 14, 2025

Mace's post that evening, January 14, 2025.

Nancy Mace loves the "uneducated" as Trump calls them. Please explain to me how the same damn Karen that called Cap Police on a child who shook her hand wanted to act like she wanted to fight me?! ME… the same person who has represented real killers in court. She's an…
Jasmine Crockett (@JasmineForUS) January 14, 2025

Crockett's response on X, January 14, 2025.

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The follow-up call, February 2025

In an appearance on ABC's "The View," Crockett said that after the January 14 exchange, a staffer for another member of Congress had called her office and told her staff they wanted to "put money on" a fight between the two members and have them "go outside." The staffer's identity and the member they worked for were not disclosed.

The security-detail dispute, March 2025

Amid a controversy over Crockett's Capitol security arrangements in March 2025, Mace weighed in directly on X:

Jasmine Crockett is entitled and violent. That's the tweet.
Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) March 26, 2025

Mace on X, March 26, 2025.