Jeffries was still legally permitted to run in the district for the 2002 cycle, as state law only requires a candidate to live in the same county as a district they seek in the first election after a redistricting, but this still complicated Jeffriesâs path. ", "Rep. Jeffries Stands With Israel Before Thousands of New Yorkers", "Brooklyn Influentials - Hakeem Jeffries: The Rising Star", "Congressman Jeffries Appointed To Bipartisan House Task Force On Over-Criminalization", "Rep. Jeffries Statement on Today's Election as Whip of the Congressional Black Caucus", "Congressional Baseball Game Democratic Roster", "Six Members of Congress ask Holder to Open Federal Inquiry in Chokehold Case", "Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Visits Eric Garner Site", "Brooklyn Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Eric Garner's mother call for federal ban on police chokeholds", "Jeffries Sponsors Bill Outlawing the Use of Chokeholds by Police", "Family of Brooklyn boy, 6, stabbed to death in elevator files $281M suit against NYCHA for having no cameras", "Brooklyn Congressman Proposes Public Housing Security Legislation", "NYPD Still Making Thousands Of Marijuana Arrests, And One Lawmaker Has Had Enough", "Jeffries criticizes de Blasio for stop-and-frisk claim", "Rep Jeffries –CBC Special Order on the Voting Rights Act", "Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) brings 'Hands up, don't shoot' to House floor", "What tradition does the Confederate flag represent? In 1997, Jeffries received a J.D. He also served as the president of Black Attorneys for Progress. Hakeem Jeffries was born on August 4 1970, in Crown Heights. Sea Ray Horn Replacement, [24][25], After the July 23, 2003, murder of Jeffries's close friend and political ally, James Davis, Jeffries was considered a potential successor to Davis on the New York City Council.
June 2, 2004, Toure, Madina, "Old Rival Bashes Brooklyn Congressman for ‘Going Against Obama’ Over UN Israel Vote,", United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy, Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York, stop-and-frisk database used by police forces in New York City, 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in New York § District 8, United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument Preservation Act (H.R. On January 3, 2013, Jeffries was sworn into the 113th Congress.
[22] Jeffries was later forced to admit that a political club he had founded, Brooklyn Freedom Democratic Association, had been behind three anonymous mail pieces sent during the last week of the election, two which attacked Green for inaction as a legislator, and a third which falsely implied that presumptive Democratic gubernatorial nominee Carl McCall supported Jeffries when he had in fact endorsed Green.
[24][25], After the July 23, 2003, murder of Jeffries's close friend and political ally, James Davis, Jeffries was considered a potential successor to Davis on the New York City Council.
After the Democratic nomination went to Davis's surviving brother Geoffrey, who was mired in a domestic violence scandal, Jeffries was considered for the Working Families Party nomination, but he did not put his name forward for consideration. The House Judiciary Committee created a bipartisan task force Tuesday to investigate whether the federal code over-criminalizes minor offenses. Jeffries' younger brother, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, is an associate professor of history at the Ohio State University in Columbus. To install click the Add extension button.
Jeffries has stated that he has "no interest" and wishes to remain an effective member of Congress.[111]. Among the innovative practices Jeffries has carried over to Congress from his service in the State Assembly are: Operation Preserve,[57] a legal housing clinic for displaced residents in the community; Summer at the Subway, now known as "Congress on Your Corner,"; outdoor evening office hours from June through August near subway stations that allows him to connect and hear constituents' concerns first- hand;[58] and his annual "State of the District" address, a community event in January that reviews important milestones achieved in the past year and previews the Congressman's goals for the year ahead. In 2010, the Stop-and-Frisk database bill was signed into law by Governor Paterson that banned police from compiling names and addresses of those stopped but not arrested during street searches. 1501; 113th Congress) into the United States House of Representatives. Congressman Hakeem Jeffries has proudly represented New York’s Eighth Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives since taking office on January 3, 2013.
In one interview, he noted ""When I first ran for office, some people suggested that someone with the name "Hakeem Jeffries" could never get elected and when I saw someone with the name "Barack Obama" get elected to the U.S. Senate, it certainly inspired me.
None of the funds made available by this Act may be used in contravention of section 203 of the Department of Education Organization Act (20 U.S.C. "[80], Jeffries supports banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. In one interview, he noted ""When I first ran for office, some people suggested that someone with the name "Hakeem Jeffries" could never get elected and when I saw someone with the name "Barack Obama" get elected to the U.S. Senate, it certainly inspired me.