Former Rep. Justin Amash considers US Senate bid

Former Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump in 2019, announced that he is thinking about jumping into the 2024 Michigan U.S. Senate GOP primary.

"Today I'm launching the Justin Amash for Senate Exploratory Committee as I consider entering the race," Amash tweeted. "We need a principled, consistent constitutional conservative in the Senate—someone with a record of taking on the bipartisan oligarchy, defending sound money and free speech, fighting the surveillance state and military-industrial complex, and protecting all our rights. The stakes are high: freedom, social cooperation, and human progress itself."

Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan announced last year that she will depart the Senate when her term ends in early 2025.

If Amash throws his hat into the ring, he will join a Republican primary field that already includes figures such as former Rep. Peter Meijer, former Rep. Mike Rogers, and former Detroit Police Chief James Craig.

Amash served as a House lawmaker from early 2011 until early 2021. While he served as a Republican throughout most of his tenure, he dumped the GOP in 2019 and became an independent, and then switched to be a libertarian in 2020.

In 2020, he announced an exploratory committee to pursue the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination, but less than a month later, said he would not run. "I've concluded that circumstances don't lend themselves to my success as a candidate for president this year, and therefore I will not be a candidate," he tweeted.

Amash, who currently describes himself on X as a libertarian, has advocated for ending the Federal Reserve. "Not just no central bank digital currency. No central bank. End the Fed," he tweeted.

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