[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 46 (Tuesday, March 11, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 11781-11783]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-03989]
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Vol. 90
Tuesday,
No. 46
March 11, 2025
Part II
The President
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Executive Order 14230--Addressing Risks From Perkins Coie LLP
Executive Order 14231--Amendment to Duties To Address the Flow of
Illicit Drugs Across Our Northern Border
Executive Order 14232--Amendment to Duties To Address the Flow of
Illicit Drugs Across Our Southern Border
Executive Order 14233--Establishment of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
and United States Digital Asset Stockpile
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Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 46 / Tuesday, March 11, 2025 /
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Title 3--
The President
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Executive Order 14230 of March 6, 2025
Addressing Risks From Perkins Coie LLP
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Purpose. The dishonest and dangerous
activity of the law firm Perkins Coie LLP (``Perkins
Coie'') has affected this country for decades. Notably,
in 2016 while representing failed Presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton, Perkins Coie hired Fusion
GPS, which then manufactured a false ``dossier''
designed to steal an election. This egregious activity
is part of a pattern. Perkins Coie has worked with
activist donors including George Soros to judicially
overturn popular, necessary, and democratically enacted
election laws, including those requiring voter
identification. In one such case, a court was forced to
sanction Perkins Coie attorneys for an unethical lack
of candor before the court.
In addition to undermining democratic elections, the
integrity of our courts, and honest law enforcement,
Perkins Coie racially discriminates against its own
attorneys and staff, and against applicants. Perkins
Coie publicly announced percentage quotas in 2019 for
hiring and promotion on the basis of race and other
categories prohibited by civil rights laws. It proudly
excluded applicants on the basis of race for its
fellowships, and it maintained these discriminatory
practices until applicants harmed by them finally sued
to enforce change.
My Administration is committed to ending discrimination
under ``diversity, equity, and inclusion'' policies and
ensuring that Federal benefits support the laws and
policies of the United States, including those laws and
policies promoting our national security and respecting
the democratic process. Those who engage in blatant
race-based and sex-based discrimination, including
quotas, but purposefully hide the nature of such
discrimination through deceiving language, have engaged
in a serious violation of the public trust. Their
disrespect for the bedrock principle of equality
represents good cause to conclude that they neither
have access to our Nation's secrets nor be deemed
responsible stewards of any Federal funds.
Sec. 2. Security Clearance Review. (a) The Attorney
General, the Director of National Intelligence, and all
other relevant heads of executive departments and
agencies (agencies) shall immediately take steps
consistent with applicable law to suspend any active
security clearances held by individuals at Perkins
Coie, pending a review of whether such clearances are
consistent with the national interest.
(b) The Office of Management and Budget shall
identify all Government goods, property, material, and
services, including Sensitive Compartmented Information
Facilities, provided for the benefit of Perkins Coie.
The heads of all agencies providing such material or
services shall, to the extent permitted by law,
expeditiously cease such provision.
Sec. 3. Contracting. (a) To prevent the transfer of
taxpayer dollars to Federal contractors whose earnings
subsidize, among other things, racial discrimination,
falsified documents designed to weaponize the
Government against candidates for office, and anti-
democratic election changes that invite fraud and
distrust, Government contracting agencies shall, to the
extent permissible by law, require Government
contractors to disclose any business they do with
Perkins Coie and whether that business is related to
the subject of the Government contract.
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(b) The heads of all agencies shall review all
contracts with Perkins Coie or with entities that
disclose doing business with Perkins Coie under
subsection (a) of this section. To the extent permitted
by law, the heads of agencies shall:
(i) take appropriate steps to terminate any contract, to the maximum extent
permitted by applicable law, including the Federal Acquisition Regulation,
for which Perkins Coie has been hired to perform any service;
(ii) otherwise align their agency funding decisions with the interests of
the citizens of the United States; with the goals and priorities of my
Administration as expressed in executive actions, especially Executive
Order 14147 of January 20, 2025 (Ending the Weaponization of the Federal
Government); and as heads of agencies deem appropriate. Within 30 days of
the date of this order, all agencies shall submit to the Director of the
Office of Management and Budget an assessment of contracts with Perkins
Coie or with entities that do business with Perkins Coie effective as of
the date of this order and any actions taken with respect to those
contracts in accordance with this order.
Sec. 4. Racial Discrimination. (a) The Chair of the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission shall review
the practices of representative large, influential, or
industry leading law firms for consistency with Title
VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, including whether
large law firms: reserve certain positions, such as
summer associate spots, for individuals of preferred
races; promote individuals on a discriminatory basis;
permit client access on a discriminatory basis; or
provide access to events, trainings, or travel on a
discriminatory basis.
(b) The Attorney General, in coordination with the
Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
and in consultation with State Attorneys General as
appropriate, shall investigate the practices of large
law firms as described in subsection (a) of this
section who do business with Federal entities for
compliance with race-based and sex-based non-
discrimination laws and take any additional actions the
Attorney General deems appropriate in light of the
evidence uncovered.
Sec. 5. Personnel. (a) The heads of all agencies shall,
to the extent permitted by law, provide guidance
limiting official access from Federal Government
buildings to employees of Perkins Coie when such access
would threaten the national security of or otherwise be
inconsistent with the interests of the United States.
In addition, the heads of all agencies shall provide
guidance limiting Government employees acting in their
official capacity from engaging with Perkins Coie
employees to ensure consistency with the national
security and other interests of the United States.
(b) Agency officials shall, to the extent permitted
by law, refrain from hiring employees of Perkins Coie,
absent a waiver from the head of the agency, made in
consultation with the Director of the Office of
Personnel Management, that such hire will not threaten
the national security of the United States.
Sec. 6. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
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(c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 6, 2025.
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