# Jason Crow **Jason Crow** has been the Democratic U.S. Representative for Colorado's 6th district (Aurora and the eastern Denver suburbs) since 2019. He is a former Army Ranger who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, and sits on the House Intelligence and Armed Services committees. He won the seat in 2018 by beating five-term Republican Mike Coffman, and was one of the House managers in [[Donald Trump]]'s first impeachment trial in 2020. ## The "illegal orders" video In November 2025 Crow was one of six Democratic lawmakers with military or intelligence backgrounds who appeared in a video reminding service members that they must refuse unlawful orders: - Senators [[Mark Kelly]] and [[Elissa Slotkin]] - Representatives Crow, Chrissy Houlahan, Maggie Goodlander and Chris Deluzio Trump called the video "seditious behavior, punishable by death" (see [[Donald Trump - 2025-11-20 - punishable by death]]). What followed was an attempt to turn that post into a prosecution: - **January 2026.** Crow and the others said the Justice Department had contacted them and that federal prosecutors were investigating them over the video. Crow called it an attempt to intimidate critics. - **February 10, 2026.** A Washington, D.C. grand jury **declined to indict** the lawmakers. Crow said Americans "should be furious that Trump and his goons tried to weaponize our justice system again against his political opponents," and warned there would be "costs." ## Why he matters here The episode is one of the vault's cleanest examples of the [[Weaponization of Government]] pattern reaching the point of a grand jury, and failing there. It fits alongside the declined or dismissed cases against other Trump critics: the grand jury, not the courts or Congress, was the check that worked. It also matters for the civil-military questions on the vault's domestic-deployment pages. The video's message, that the duty to refuse an unlawful order is real, is ordinary military law. Treating it as sedition was the new part. ## See also - [[Mark Kelly]] · [[Elissa Slotkin]] · [[Donald Trump - 2025-11-20 - punishable by death]] - [[Weaponization of Government]] · [[Weaponization Working Group]] · [[Trump First Impeachment]]