IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 246 
Impeaching Theodore Chuang, a judge of the United States District Court 
for the District of Maryland, for high crimes and misdemeanors. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 24, 2025 
Mr. OGLES (for himself and Mr. DAVIDSON) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
RESOLUTION 
Impeaching Theodore Chuang, a judge of the United States 
District Court for the District of Maryland, for high 
crimes and misdemeanors. 
Resolved, That Theodore Chuang, a judge of the 
United States District Court for the District of Maryland, 
is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that 
the following article of impeachment be exhibited in 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 Theodore Chuang, a judge of the United 
States District Court for the District of Maryland, in 
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maintenance and support of its impeachment against him 
for high crimes and misdemeanors. 
ARTICLE I 
Theodore Chuang, a judge of the United States Dis-
trict Court for the District of Maryland, engaged in a pat-
tern of conduct that is incompatible with the trust and 
confidence placed in him as a Federal judge as follows: 
Judge Chuang, in his memorandum opinion on 
March 18, 2025, related to the case J. Does v. Elon Musk, 
et al., issued a preliminary injunction ordering, among 
other things, the government ‘‘to reinstate access to email, 
payments, security notifications, and other electronic sys-
tems, including restoring deleted emails, for current 
USAID employees and PSCs’’. In issuing a temporary re-
straining order requiring provision of systems access to 
these employees and PSCs, Judge Chuang 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. This patent violation of 
the separation of powers—which prevents the President 
from responding to threats to our national security posed 
by USAID employees who have, among other things, dis-
bursed funds to organizations linked to Foreign Terrorist 
Organizations—is entirely inconsistent with serving the 
United States as a district court judge. 
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Judge Chuang, in mandating the immediate provision 
of access to government systems without regard for the 
President’s duty under Article II to defend the national 
security of the United States, has done so in a manner 
that is arbitrary and capricious. Judge Chuang mandated 
such access without regard for the troubled history of for-
eign 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 com-
plied with regulations aimed at preventing financial sup-
port 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’s reorganization 
of USAID caused ‘‘irreparable harm’’ to the plaintiffs, 
Judge Chuang failed to consider that his decisions could 
easily inflict ‘‘irreparable harm’’ on Americans and Amer-
ican interests. 
Accordingly, Judge Theodore Chuang has engaged in 
conduct so lacking in due concern for the separation of 
powers and the national security of the United States that 
he is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, is unfit to 
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hold the office of Federal judge, and should be removed 
from office. 
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