Tennessee U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) said he would be introducing articles of impeachment against U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali.
On Tuesday, Ali ruled in the cases AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition v. Department of State and Global Health Council v. Trump – both brought by nonprofits that perform foreign assistance work with federal grant money – that the Trump administration must release billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid by midnight on Wednesday.
🚨INCOMING: NEW ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT🚨
I’m drafting articles of impeachment for U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali. Yet another PARTISAN ACTIVIST attempting to weaponize his position to block President Trump from cutting wasteful foreign funding.
Accountability is key. pic.twitter.com/UZUslAd1qT
— Rep. Andy Ogles (@RepOgles) February 25, 2025
Ali’s ruling on Tuesday follows a previous ruling he issued on February 13 where he ordered the Trump administration to resume funding of foreign aid assistance programs prior to President Trump’s January 20 executive order titled “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid.”
Ogles called Ali a “partisan activist” for his ruling on Tuesday giving the Trump administration less than two days to resume foreign aid funding paused under the president’s executive order.
“I’m drafting articles of impeachment for U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali. Yet another PARTISAN ACTIVIST attempting to weaponize his position to block President Trump from cutting wasteful foreign funding,” Ogles wrote in a post published to X.
“Accountability is key,” Ogles added.
Amir was nominated by former President Joe Biden to become a U.S. District Judge in Washington, D.C. last year.
Ogles’ efforts were applauded by billionaire and special government employee Elon Musk.
“When judges egregiously undermine the democratic will of the people, they must be fired or democracy dies,” Musk said.
Ogles’ forthcoming articles of impeachment against Ali comes just one day after the Tennessee congressman formally introduced articles of impeachment against another federal judge, as previously reported by The Tennessee Star.
On Monday, Ogles filed articles of impeachment against U.S. District Judge John Bates, who, earlier this month, ordered the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to restore webpages promoting gender ideology that were removed in compliance with an executive order signed by Trump.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
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