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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION 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.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY27, 2025
Mr. O
GLES(for himself and Mr. GILLof Texas) submitted the following
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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 1
the United States District Court for the District of Colum-2
bia, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and 3
that the following article of impeachment be exhibited to 4
the Senate: 5
Article of impeachment exhibited by the House of 6
Representatives of the United States of America in the 7
name of itself and of the people of the United States of 8
America, against Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali, a judge of the 9
United States District Court for the District of Columbia, 10
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in maintenance and support of its impeachment against 1
him for high crimes and misdemeanors. 2
ARTICLE I 3
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Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali, a judge of the United States 5
District Court for the District of Columbia, engaged in 6
a pattern of conduct that is incompatible with the trust 7
and confidence placed in him as a Federal judge, as fol-8
lows: 9
Judge Ali, in a 2024 written statement to the Senate 10
Judiciary Committee, asserted that a ‘‘judge must decide 11
issues based on an impartial and objective application of 12
the law to the record before the court’’. In issuing a tem-13
porary restraining order against the ‘‘pausing’’ of funds 14
promulgated in Executive Order 14169, Judge Ali has 15
without merit marginalized the President’s Article II au-16
thority, which vests the power to conduct foreign policy 17
in the President of the United States, and has further 18
compromised the President’s fiduciary obligation to review 19
federal agencies and programs. This patent violation of 20
Constitutional precedent—which necessarily precludes an 21
explanation based on ignorance of the supreme law of the 22
land—is entirely inconsistent with serving the United 23
States as a district court judge. 24
Judge Ali, in mandating the immediate outlay of 25
funds in contradiction of subsection (a) of Section 3 of 26
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Executive Order 14169, has done so in a manner that is 1
arbitrary and capricious. The understood purpose of the 2
President’s Executive order was to review such funds for 3
consistency with United States foreign policy. By man-4
dating immediate funding disbursement of funds paused 5
by the President’s Executive order, Judge Ali did so with 6
no consideration for the troubled history of foreign assist-7
ance through the United States Agency for International 8
Development (USAID). A March 2021 GAO report indi-9
cates that from FY2015 until FY2019, USAID did not 10
consistently ensure that subawards provided for projects 11
in the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria complied with 12
regulations aimed at preventing financial support for ter-13
rorism. More recently, in November 2024, USAID was 14
found to have financed hundreds of thousands of meals 15
for al-Qaida affiliated fighters in Syria. While arguing 16
that the Trump administration funding pause caused ‘‘ir-17
reparable harm’’, Judge Ali failed to consider that his de-18
cision could easily inflict ‘‘irreparable harm’’ on Americans 19
and American interests. 20
Accordingly, Judge Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali has en-21
gaged in conduct so utterly lacking in intellectual honesty 22
and basic integrity that he is guilty of high crimes and 23
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misdemeanors, is unfit to hold the office of Federal judge, 1
and should be removed from office. 2
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