Mondaire L Jones was born on May 18,1987 and is an American lawyer and politician who was the US representative for from 2021 to 2023.
20 Facts About Mondaire Jones
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Mondaire Jones was appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights on January 3,2023.
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Mondaire Jones was born in Nyack, New York, and grew up in Spring Valley, New York, where he was raised by a single mother, who worked multiple jobs to support him, and his grandparents.
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Mondaire Jones graduated from public schools in the East Ramapo Central School District.
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Mondaire Jones earned his bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 2009.
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Mondaire Jones then earned his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 2013.
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Mondaire Jones provided pro bono legal aid through The Legal Aid Society.
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Mondaire Jones announced his candidacy for the Democratic primary to represent the 17th district against 16-term incumbent Nita Lowey.
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Mondaire Jones advocated Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, and police reform.
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The 10th district was based in Manhattan and Brooklyn and did not include any of the territory that Mondaire Jones had been representing.
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In December 2022, it was reported that Mondaire Jones was planning to move to Sleepy Hollow, a village in New York's 17th congressional district, a swing district represented by Republican Mike Lawler.
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Mondaire Jones was one of two African-American LGBT members of the 117th United States Congress, along with New York's Ritchie Torres.
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Mondaire Jones voted to certify the 2020 United States presidential election and later voted to impeach during Trump's second impeachment.
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Mondaire Jones successfully lobbied US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to halt the deportation of Paul Pierrilus, who was scheduled to be the last person to be deported during the Trump administration.
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Pierrilus, a constituent of Mondaire Jones's, was to be deported to Haiti, a country he had never been to, before Mondaire Jones intervened.
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Mondaire Jones voted for the American Rescue Plan, the PRO Act, Equality Act, For the People Act, George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, and the Bipartisan Background Checks Act.
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Around the same time, Mondaire Jones called for a "Third Reconstruction" in a Washington Post opinion piece.
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Mondaire Jones criticized President Obama for supporting the 9 member status quo system of the Supreme Court and against its expansion.
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Mondaire Jones is a member of the First Baptist Church of Spring Valley.
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Mondaire Jones will run again for the House of Representatives in 2024 in the 17th New York Congressional district against Liz Whitmer Gereghty, the sister of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.