Voting Rights
Throughout history, and on great display at the turn of the decade, Texas has proven itself as a regressive home for voter access. Federal action is needed to protect voters, ensure access, and restore rights. From expanded vote-by-mail to online voter registration, Congresswoman Crockett will push for fair voting legislation that would bring Texas, and other states with outdated and harmful voting laws, into the 21st century.
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WASHINGTON — Today, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) released the following statement after House Republicans failed to pass a continuing resolution bill to prevent a government shutdown. Republicans have until the start of the new fiscal year, October 1, to pass a funding bill to keep the government open and functioning.
WASHINGTON – On Thursday, July 27, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) and Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) hosted a press conference announcing the introduction of the Democracy Restoration Act, historic legislation that would end the permanent denial of voting rights nationwide for individuals with criminal convictions who have been released from incarceration (irrespective of fines, fees, parole, probation, etc.). They were joined by original cosponsors Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-08), Rep. Valerie Foushee (NC-04), and Rep.
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WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Kelly Armstrong (R-ND), and Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR) introduced bipartisan legislation to address the U.S. public defender shortage.
The Ensuring Quality Access to Legal (EQUAL) Defense Act, H.R. 3758, will increase access to quality counsel by providing public defense grants, establish workload limits, phase in pay parity between public defenders and prosecutors within five years, and more.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) released the following statement after voting against the House Budget Agreement.
“Trailblazers and tots,” said new Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas, a civil rights lawyer now representing a Dallas-area congressional seat, giving a nod to the Shirley Chisolm, the first Black woman in Congress, and the importance of supporting children. Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois cited her pregnant mother’s journey as an immigrant from Guatemala crossing the U.S.-Mexico border to give her child a better life.
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, may be a politician but she’s not in office for political games.
“I want to make an impact in my community,” says Crockett, who sits on the House Oversight Committee. “That is why I initially got into politics. I could care less for the actual political side of things, but I love people and I love doing everything that I can to make sure that people feel like they have a real and educated voice that will speak up for them.”
Crockett said she came to voting rights accidentally. When she was a student at the University of Houston Law Center, she was late to sign up for a seminar class “so all of the ‘good ones’ were gone”, she said. She ended up in an election law seminar, and remembers thinking: “What am I going to do with this?”
“Little did I know,” she said. “I always tell people that God had this amazing, beautiful plan that I was definitely not clued in on.”
Congresswoman Crockett is proud to bring Texas' 30th to the table as she serves on the House Committee on the Judiciary and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
On the House Committee on the Judiciary, Congresswoman Crockett serves on the: