Impeaching Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali, a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, for high crimes and misdemeanors.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 174 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 174

Impeaching Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali, a judge of the United States District 
 Court for the District of Columbia, for high crimes and misdemeanors.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 27, 2025

 Mr. Ogles (for himself and Mr. Gill of Texas) submitted the following 
    resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Impeaching Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali, a judge of the United States District 
 Court for the District of Columbia, for high crimes and misdemeanors.

    Resolved, That Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali, a judge of the United States 
District Court for the District of Columbia, is impeached for high 
crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following article of impeachment 
be exhibited to the Senate:
     Article of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives 
of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people 
of the United States of America, against Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali, a judge 
of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, in 
maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes 
and misdemeanors.

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    Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali, a judge of the United States District Court 
for the District of Columbia, engaged in a pattern of conduct that is 
incompatible with the trust and confidence placed in him as a Federal 
judge, as follows:
    Judge Ali, in a 2024 written statement to the Senate Judiciary 
Committee, asserted that a ``judge must decide issues based on an 
impartial and objective application of the law to the record before the 
court''. In issuing a temporary restraining order against the 
``pausing'' of funds promulgated in Executive Order 14169, Judge Ali 
has without merit marginalized the President's Article II authority, 
which vests the power to conduct foreign policy in the President of the 
United States, and has further compromised the President's fiduciary 
obligation to review federal agencies and programs. This patent 
violation of Constitutional precedent--which necessarily precludes an 
explanation based on ignorance of the supreme law of the land--is 
entirely inconsistent with serving the United States as a district 
court judge.
    Judge Ali, in mandating the immediate outlay of funds in 
contradiction of subsection (a) of Section 3 of Executive Order 14169, 
has done so in a manner that is arbitrary and capricious. The 
understood purpose of the President's Executive order was to review 
such funds for consistency with United States foreign policy. By 
mandating immediate funding disbursement of funds paused by the 
President's Executive order, Judge Ali did so with no consideration for 
the troubled history of foreign assistance through the United States 
Agency for International Development (USAID). A March 2021 GAO report 
indicates that from FY2015 until FY2019, USAID did not consistently 
ensure that subawards provided for projects in the Gaza Strip and Judea 
and Samaria complied with regulations aimed at preventing financial 
support for terrorism. More recently, in November 2024, USAID was found 
to have financed hundreds of thousands of meals for al-Qaida affiliated 
fighters in Syria. While arguing that the Trump administration funding 
pause caused ``irreparable harm'', Judge Ali failed to consider that 
his decision could easily inflict ``irreparable harm'' on Americans and 
American interests.
    Accordingly, Judge Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali has engaged in conduct so 
utterly lacking in intellectual honesty and basic integrity that he is 
guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, is unfit to hold the office of 
Federal judge, and should be removed from office.
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