Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett is making a fresh bid for attention with talk of impeaching President Trump.
The second-term congresswoman, known for her confrontational stunts, told WFAA’s Inside Texas Politics that she would "absolutely at least do an inquiry" if Democrats win back the House in 2026.
Despite Crockett's rhetoric, there is little support for impeaching Trump among House Democrats currently.
Their crushing defeat in November capped years of failed attempts to derail Trump's remarkable political ascent through lawfare, efforts which escalated dramatically during the 2024 election cycle as Trump faced multiple overlapping prosecutions.
With Democrats' approval ratings in the gutter, leaders in the party are reluctant to embrace more impeachment theater.
Crockett conceded that two past efforts to impeach and convict Trump have not been successful.
"Once we get to the majority, which I’m hoping and praying we get to, next cycle, that allows me to start to open up and do the things that would look like an impeachment. Now, whether or not we would put it to a vote, you know, he’s been impeached twice, couldn’t get convicted. There’s a lot of things to consider about whether or not to go forward.”
To make impeachment stick, Democrats would need control of the House and the Senate and at least some Republican defectors willing to convict and remove Trump. But Trump's control of the GOP is stronger than ever before, making such an outcome unlikely.
Another low-ranking House Democrat, Shri Thanedar (Mi.), withdrew an impeachment resolution recently under pressure from leadership.
Despite her aggressive posturing, Crockett understands that impeaching Trump has not worked before and is unlikely to work in the future. Still, she suggested there could be a political payoff in pursuing an impeachment investigation into Trump, even without a formal impeachment vote. She pointed to House Republicans' impeachment inquiry into Hunter Biden as a precedent.
"So I think that there is something to be said for us digging in when there’s real things to look at such as this $400 million plane from the Qataris and whether or not that’s a violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution," she said.
"I think that we need to dig into all this crypto nonsense that he’s got going on. I think we need to dig into the fact that it looks like he’s giving out pardons for play," she said.
Hedging, she concluded, "I would absolutely at least do an inquiry. Absolutely.”
