119-hres246

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 246 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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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.

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 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

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 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 
maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes 
and misdemeanors.

 article i

 Theodore Chuang, a judge of the United States District Court for 
the District of Maryland, engaged in a pattern 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 
systems, including restoring deleted emails, for current USAID 
employees and PSCs''. In issuing a temporary restraining 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, disbursed funds to organizations linked to Foreign Terrorist 
Organizations--is entirely inconsistent with serving the United States 
as a district court judge.
 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 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'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 American 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 hold the office of Federal judge, and should 
be removed from office.
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