IV 
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. 
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 
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 Colum-
bia, 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, 
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in maintenance and support of its impeachment against 
him for high crimes and misdemeanors. 
ARTICLE I 
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 fol-
lows: 
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 tem-
porary restraining order against the ‘‘pausing’’ of funds 
promulgated in Executive Order 14169, Judge Ali has 
without merit marginalized the President’s Article II au-
thority, 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 
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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 man-
dating 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 assist-
ance through the United States Agency for International 
Development (USAID). A March 2021 GAO report indi-
cates 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 ter-
rorism. 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 ‘‘ir-
reparable harm’’, Judge Ali failed to consider that his de-
cision could easily inflict ‘‘irreparable harm’’ on Americans 
and American interests. 
Accordingly, Judge Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali has en-
gaged in conduct so utterly lacking in intellectual honesty 
and basic integrity that he is guilty of high crimes and 
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misdemeanors, is unfit to hold the office of Federal judge, 
and should be removed from office. 
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