Justin Amash

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Justin Amash

Justin Amash (born April 18, 1980 in Grand Rapids , Michigan ) is an American politician . Since 2011, he represents the 3rd congressional district of Michigan in the US House of Representatives . Amash was a member of the Republican Party until it became independent in July 2019. In April 2020 he joined the Libertarian Party . He voted for President Trump's impeachment .

Family, education and work

Justin Amash attended Grand Rapids Christian High School and then studied economics at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor until 2002 . After completing a law degree at the same university, he worked as a lawyer from 2005 onwards.

Amash is married and has three children.

Political career

From January 2009 to January 2011 Amash was an MP in the Michigan House of Representatives , where he represented the 72nd electoral district.

In the election to the US House of Representatives Nov. 2, 2010 , the first mid-term election in Barack Obama's presidency to strengthen the opposition ( tea party movement brought), Amash was the third congressional district in Michigan, the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC elected , where he succeeded Vern Ehlers on January 3, 2011 ; after 17 years he had renounced a new candidacy. Amash prevailed in the election with 60 percent of the vote against the Democrat Pat Miles.

When he took office on January 3, 2011, Amash was the second youngest MP in Congress after Aaron Schock of Illinois . Amash has always been re-elected, most recently in 2018.

He is or was a member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and two of its sub-committees. He also belongs or was a member of the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee . He was previously a member of the Budget Committee .

Positions and criticism of President Trump

Within his party he is close to libertarian ideas and the tea party movement. Amash supported then-libertarian Congressman Ron Paul in his party's 2012 presidential primary .

In 2013, he tabled a draft bill against NSA data retention , known as the Amash Amendment . He was supported by left-wing Democrats like John Conyers , but also by conservatives like Jim Sensenbrenner , a co-initiator of the USA PATRIOT Act . House Speaker John Boehner , NSA Director Keith Alexander and James L. Jones spoke out vehemently against Amash's draft. 94 Republicans voted against their spokesman Boehner and even a majority of the Democrats, 111, against President Obama, but the proposal failed with 205 to 217.

On May 18, 2019, Amash became the first Republican MP in the US House of Representatives to speak out in favor of impeachment against US President Donald Trump. The report by special investigator Robert Mueller on the Russia affair repeatedly shows behavior that justifies impeachment . Amash also supported the House of Representatives' impeachment proceedings against Trump in the fall. He was the only non-Democrat to vote both for the impeachment proceedings to be opened on October 31, 2019 and for the confirmation of the two articles of impeachment that certified Trump's wrongdoing in office. Trump held a campaign rally in Amash's constituency that same evening. On January 15, 2020, Amash voted to submit the two articles of impeachment to the United States Senate .

Web links

Commons : Justin Amash  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Justin Amash Endorses Ron Paul . Facebook. Retrieved September 18, 2011.
  2. ^ Justin Amash Amendment To Stop NSA Data Collection Voted Down In House. In: The Huffington Post , July 24, 2013.
  3. ↑ GOP lawmaker says Trump's conduct meets 'threshold for impeachment'. In: The Washington Post , May 18, 2019.
  4. ↑ Justin Wise: Amash rips GOP for 'excusing' Trump 'misbehavior' before backing impeachment resolution. In: The Hill , October 31, 2019
  5. ↑ Brett Samuels, Morgan Chalfant: Trump rallies supporters as he becomes third president to be impeached. In: The Hill , December 18, 2019
  6. ↑ Olivia Beavers, Mike Lillis: House votes to send impeachment articles to Senate. In: The Hill , January 15, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Amash, Justin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Grand Rapids , Michigan