Meet Alexcia Cox: The Black Woman that Can Put Trump Behind Bars

State Attorney Alexcia Cox

Alexcia Cox is the first Black State Attorney of Palm Beach County.  In 2025, her office secured criminal indictments against two men that engaged in acts that she described as “the most horrific imaginable.”  They were each charged with two counts of sexual battery for the repeated sexual assault of a six-year-old girl in West Palm Beach, Florida. State Attorney Cox released a statement on the case that reads:

The repeated abuse of a defenseless child, by Josue David Mendez Sales and Pablo Neftaly Cobon Mendez, is not only a violation of the law, it is a violation of our deepest human values. In the gravest cases, and when the victims are children, prosecutors have a duty to consider the strongest punishment available; in this case, that is the death penalty.

Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes are no less horrific, except his victims number in the hundreds if not more. His youngest known victim was 9 years old.  Epstein’s died in federal custody before his victims could bring him to justice in a court of law, but millions of documents compiled by federal investigators still remain.  These documents expose Epstein’s crimes and many of the people he committed them with, including Donald Trump.  Legal teams working with Epstein’s victims during these investigations have confirmed that there are files naming Donald Trump that the Administration is still withholding. 

Despite Congress passing the Epstein Files Transparency Act and federal justices issuing orders requiring the Department of Justice to release the files, Trump and his DOJ have remained obstinate. They continue to obstruct the release of these documents.  Obstruction is considered a “high crime,” and is both an impeachable and indictable offence. 

In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee approved articles of impeachment against President Nixon that included obstruction of justice in relation to the Watergate scandal.  In 1998, President Clinton was impeached by the House for obstruction of justice in relation to the Monica Lewinski  scandal. And in 2019, Trump was impeached by the House for obstruction of Congress for directing the Ukrainian Quid Pro Quo scandal. 

There were no efforts to impeach them, though, because in the wake of Watergate, Nixon’s Department of Justice issued a memo claiming that a sitting President cannot be indicted for a crime. In its Trump v the United States (2024) ruling, the Supreme Court created a new set of guidelines for indicting a sitting President. 

These new guidelines stripped the absolute immunity Nixon granted to the President and replaced it with a 3-tiered system of immunity that creates space for a sitting President to be indicted.  They also extended indictment authority to District Attorneys and State Attorneys General. This is why District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush money case was allowed to continue after the ruling, and why he was able to label Trump a 34 time felon.

Trump was not imprisoned as a result of this conviction because DA Bragg did not request prison time. Trump also avoided imprisonment for the January 6 insurrection because Jack Smith was not able to meet SCOTUS’s new requirements before the Trump Administration took control of the Department of Justice for its second term.  And Fani Willis’s case was dismissed, not because of presidential immunity, but because not a single prosecutor in the state of Georgia showed enough courage to fill her shoes. 

Our prosecutors did not have the courage to continue the fight after Trump took office for the second time.  We need to help them find that courage now.  The prosecutor that is positioned to deal the strongest legal blow to the Trump Administration is the State Attorney of Palm Beach County.  That person just happens to be the President’s greatest fear -  a powerful Black woman.

State Attorney Cox is a habitual groundbreaker.  She does not know the word “quit” and she is laser-focused on doing what’s right for her family and community. She became a mother her junior year of high school and still earned a scholarship to college.  She gives back to the community, fights to protect women and children, and knows that she serves a larger purpose.

Cox describes, “Although I did not know what my future held, I knew I was destined for success. I’m a firm believer that with God, all things are possible, and that was what motivated me to excel.”

It may be possible that she is being called on now to be the Black woman that puts an end to the criminal network operating out of the Office of the President. We need to encourage her to take her place in history and let her know we have her back.