Justin Amash

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Justin Amash (born April 18, 1980) is an American lawyer and politician currently serving as the US Representative for Michigan's 3rd congressional district since 2011.

Amash, a Republican Party alumnus, became an independent in July 2019.

Amash, a native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born to Arab Christian parents who had immigrated to the United States.

After high school, he studied economics at the University of Michigan, obtained a law degree at the University of Michigan Law School and worked as a corporate advocate before entering politics. Amash served in the Michigan House of Representatives for a term before being elected to Congress in 2010.

Amash's home in Cascade Township as well as Grand Rapids is included in his congressional district; it also includes much of the territory represented by former President Gerald Ford.

Amash, a conservative libertarian, chaired the Liberty Caucus and is known as one of the House's most libertarian members.

After leaving the party, Amash became the first Republican congressman to call for the impeachment of Donald Trump.

Early life and education

Justin Amash was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on April 18, 1980. He is the second of three sons born to Arab Christian parents who immigrated to the United States. Attallah Amash, a Palestinian Christian whose family lived in Ramla until being forcibly expelled by Israeli soldiers during the 1948 Arab–Israeli war. In 1956, Attallah and his family immigrated to the United States, but not until he was 16 years old, through the sponsorship of an American pastor in Muskegon, Michigan. Mimi, Amash's mother, is a Syrian Christian who met his father through family connections in Damascus, Syria, and the two married in 1974.

Amash grew up in Kentwood, Michigan. He first attended Kelloggsville Christian School in Kentwood, then Grand Rapids Christian High School, from which he graduated in 1998 as class valedictorian. He then attended the University of Michigan, graduating in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics with high honors. Amash attended the University of Michigan Law School, graduating with a Juris Doctor degree in 2005.

Amash spent less than a year as a partner at the Grand Rapids law firm Varnum LLP after graduating from law school. He then became a consultant to Michigan Industrial Tools Inc. (also known as Tekton Inc.), a business that his father founded and owns. He served in his family's company for a year before being elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in 2008. Amash's two brothers also work at Michigan Industrial Tools.

After graduating from college, Amash and his partner Kara Day attended high school together and married. They have a son and two daughters.

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Political career

Glenn D. Steil Jr., the incumbent state representative for Michigan's 72nd House District, was unable to run for reelection in the 2008 election due to term limits. Amash ran in the Republican primary and defeated four other candidates before defeating Democratic nominee Albert Abbasse in the general election.

During his initial tenure in the State House, Amash sponsored five resolutions and twelve bills, but none of them passed. While in the State House, he began using his Twitter and Facebook pages to report his floor votes and explain his reasoning and had a government transparency page on his website that would allow people to view the members and salaries of his staff.

On February 9, 2010, Amash announced that he would run for the Republican nomination for Michigan's third congressional district and the next day incumbent Representative Vern Ehlers announced that he would not seek reelection. During the primary campaign he was endorsed by Betsy and Dick DeVos, the Club for Growth, Representative Ron Paul, and FreedomWorks PAC. In the Republican primary he defeated four other candidates and shortly before the general election he was named as one of Time magazine's "40 under 40 – Rising Stars of U.S. Politics". During the campaign he advocated politics supported by the Tea Party movement and defeated Democratic nominee Patrick Miles Jr. in the general election.

The House Republican Steering Committee removed Amash from the House Budget Committee on December 3, 2012, as part of a larger party leadership-caucus shift. He joined Representatives Tim Huelskamp and David Schweikert in a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner, demanding to know why they had lost their committee positions. A spokesperson for Republican Congressman Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia said that Amash, Huelskamp, and Schweikert had been removed for "their inability to work with other members." Politico said that the three were "the first members pulled off committees as punishment for political or personality reasons in nearly two decades".: p.2

Following the retirement of Senator Carl Levin it was speculated that Amash would run in the 2014 Senate election and Senator Mike Lee encouraged him to run, but Amash chose to run for reelection to the House.

Amash was endorsed by the fiscally conservative Club for Growth PAC, which spent over $500,000 supporting Amash in his Republican primary against former East Grand Rapids School Trustee Brian Ellis, who was endorsed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and spent more than $1 million of his own money on the race.

After Amash defeated Ellis in the August primary, with 57% of the vote to Ellis's 43%, Amash was highly critical of Ellis and former Congressman Pete Hoekstra, who had backed Ellis. Of Hoekstra, Amash said, "You are a disgrace. And I'm glad we could hand you one more loss before you fade into total obscurity and irrelevance." Amash took exception to one of Ellis's television ads that quoted California Republican Congressman Devin Nunes calling Amash "Al Qaeda's best friend in Congress"; he demanded an apology from Ellis for running what he called a "disgusting, despicable smear campaign." As Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic notes, "Amash voted against the reauthorization of the Patriot Act, favored a measure to repeal indefinite detention, and opposed reauthorization of the FISA Amendments Act." In the general election, Amash won reelection against Democratic nominee Bob Goodrich.

In 2011, Amash endorsed Representative Ron Paul's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. In 2015, he endorsed Senator Rand Paul's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination and later endorsed Senator Ted Cruz after Paul dropped out.

From 2011 to 2019, Amash missed only one of 5,374 roll call votes.

In a July 4, 2019 op-ed, Amash announced that he was leaving the Republican Party and becoming an independent. In his op-ed, he said:

On July 8, 2019, Amash formally submitted his resignation from the Party to Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Republican Conference Leader Liz Cheney. In the process, he resigned his seat on the Committee on Oversight and Reform. Amash thus became the only independent in the House of Representatives, and the first independent in the House since Bernie Sanders of Vermont (who left the House in 2007 after being elected to the Senate); and one of three independents in the United States Congress, along with Sanders and Senator Angus King of Maine.

In April 2020, Amash joined the Libertarian Party. In doing so, Amash became the first Libertarian member to serve in either house of Congress.

In July 2020, Amash announced that he would not seek re-election to the House, saying that he would "miss" representing his constituency in Congress.

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