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I hope she also takes her knowledge to help overhaul the public defender system so it attracts better attorneys and provides a better defense for the common people who can't afford it.
My focus is going to be on economic prosperity. Almost 20% of my district is below the poverty line. And I also have the highest incarcerated zip code in the state of Texas.

Good politics can also be good economics. >

Usually is. >

Didn't even have to click the link to know it was a Democrat.
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Good, perspective is a good thing. >

Yea republicans would never vote for a public defender >

They'd probably prefer to just throw people to the lions. >

In a legislature awash with former prosecutors, Rep. Jasmine Crockett is one of the few members of Congress who has defended those unable to afford a lawyer. >

She'll probably one of the very few or perhaps only member of congress with first hand experience dealing with poverty on a regular basis.
So many representatives are very far removed from anything common, you know, aside from the grocery store they camp when shooting their campaign ads. 
Congress seems to be completely out of touch with the realities of regular working class people. And, how could they not be, it's not like they're one of us >

Wasn’t AOC’s mom at risk of losing her home? She has first hand knowledge of what poverty is like >

When Rep.-elect Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is sworn into Congress this week — or whenever Republicans manage to elect a Speaker — she will become one of the few members to have worked as a public defender. Many members of Congress are lawyers, and most of those who worked in the criminal justice system were prosecutors — 29 House members in the 117th Congress that just ended were formerly prosecutors, according to the Congressional Research Service.