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Executive-order audits
Phase H audits of the first-half-2025 executive orders most cited as authoritarian in public discourse: what each order directs, what its enforcement record shows, the court record, and how each was packaged. Selection rationale: agent-docs/eo-audit-selection.md.
- Entries
- 6
- Last updated
- Jul 12, 2026
Event list (text)
- Executive Order 14147: the enforcement record — 2025-01-20 (contested)
- Executive Order 14168: the enforcement record — 2025-01-20 (contested)
- Executive Order 14169: the enforcement record — 2025-01-20 (pattern)
- Executive Order 14215: the enforcement record — 2025-02-18 (contested)
- Proclamation 10903: the Alien Enemies Act enforcement record — 2025-03-14 (contested)
- Executive Order 14248: the enforcement record — 2025-03-25 (contested)
Executive Order 14147: the enforcement record
Executive Order 14147 directed the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence to review four years of prior enforcement and intelligence activity for 'weaponization' and to recommend remedial action. The enforcement record shows those mandated reviews largely undocumented as completed, while the actions taken under the same banner, a Working Group trained on the prosecutors who charged the president and clearance revocations of named individuals, were narrower and directed at specific people.
Executive Order 14168: the enforcement record
Executive Order 14168 defined sex as binary and immutable for federal purposes and directed implementation across passports, federal prisons, and federal programs. The record shows executed agency action on each front, with courts preliminarily enjoining the passport and prison fronts and the passport litigation now before the Supreme Court.
Executive Order 14169: the enforcement record
Executive Order 14169 ordered a 90-day pause on United States foreign development assistance and a review of programs for alignment with US interests. The enforcement record shows the pause executed within weeks and the near-total dismantlement of USAID by July 1, 2025, with courts ordering the funds resumed and reporting divided over whether the executive complied.
Executive Order 14215: the enforcement record
Executive Order 14215, signed February 18, 2025, directs independent regulatory agencies to submit significant rules to White House OIRA review and makes the President's and Attorney General's legal interpretations binding on executive-branch employees. The documented implementation record is one April 2025 OMB directive; the member removals litigated alongside it reached the Supreme Court, which in June 2026 upheld the President's removal power and overruled Humphrey's Executor.
Executive Order 14248: the enforcement record
Executive Order 14248 directed documentary proof of citizenship on the federal voter registration form, an Election Day mail-ballot deadline, federal database checks of state voter lists, and funding threats to noncompliant states. Courts permanently invalidated the citizenship provision, the Election Assistance Commission refused to implement it, and no change to federal voting rules took effect over the record.
Proclamation 10903: the Alien Enemies Act enforcement record
Proclamation 10903 invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to remove alleged Tren de Aragua members without immigration-court process. The enforcement record shows one removal wave of roughly 261 people to El Salvador on March 15, 2025, then comprehensive judicial blocking, a disputed non-compliance over flights that did not turn back, and a standing ban under which the Act is currently not enforced.