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Executive Order 14237: Addressing Risks From Paul Weiss

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What the order contains

Section headings exactly as they appear in the official text.

  • Sec. 1. Background
  • Sec. 2. Security Clearance Review
  • Sec. 3. Contracting
  • Sec. 4. Racial Discrimination
  • Sec. 5. Personnel
  • Sec. 6. General Provisions

Section 1, quoted from the order

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Global law firms have for years played an outsized role in undermining the judicial process and in the destruction of bedrock American principles. Many have engaged in activities that make our communities less safe, increase burdens on local businesses, limit constitutional freedoms, and degrade the quality of American elections. Additionally, they have sometimes done so on behalf of clients, pro bono, or ostensibly ``for the public good''--potentially depriving those who cannot otherwise afford the benefit of top legal talent the access to justice deserved by all. My Administration will no longer support taxpayer funds sponsoring such harm. […]

Federal Register notes

See: EO 14147, January 20, 2025; EO 14230, March 6, 2025 Revoked by: EO 14244, March 21, 2025

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Sources

  1. Federal Register: 90 FR 13039
  2. Official PDF (GovInfo)
  3. Federal Register API (Office of the Federal Register / GPO)