Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of Justice

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January 13, 2025

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January 3, 2025

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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 7 (Monday, January 13, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 2581-2582]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00611]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 7 / Monday, January 13, 2025 / 
Presidential Documents

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                Executive Order 14136 of January 3, 2025

                
Providing an Order of Succession Within the 
                Department of Justice

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, including the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 
                1998, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 3345 et seq. (the ``Act''), 
                it is hereby ordered that:

                Section 1. Order of Succession. Subject to the 
                provisions of section 2 of this order, and to the 
                limitations set forth in the Act, the following 
                officials of the Department of Justice, in the order 
                listed, shall act as and perform the functions and 
                duties of the office of Attorney General during any 
                period in which the Attorney General, the Deputy 
                Attorney General, the Associate Attorney General, and 
                any officers designated by the Attorney General 
                pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 508 to act as Attorney General 
                have died, resigned, or otherwise become unable to 
                perform the functions and duties of the office of 
                Attorney General, until such time as at least one of 
                the officers mentioned above is able to perform the 
                functions and duties of that office:

                    (a) United States Attorney for the Southern 
                District of New York;
                    (b) United States Attorney for the District of 
                Arizona;
                    (c) United States Attorney for the Northern 
                District of Illinois; and
                    (d) United States Attorney for the District of 
                Hawaii.

                Sec. 2. Exceptions. (a) No individual who is serving in 
                an office listed in section 1(a)-(d) of this order in 
                an acting capacity shall, by virtue of so serving, act 
                as Attorney General pursuant to this order.

                    (b) No individual who is serving in an office 
                listed in section 1(a)-(d) of this order shall act as 
                Attorney General unless that individual is otherwise 
                eligible to so serve under the Act.
                    (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this order, 
                the President retains discretion, to the extent 
                permitted by law, to depart from this order in 
                designating an acting Attorney General.

                Sec. 3. Revocation. Executive Order 13787 of March 31, 
                2017 (Providing an Order of Succession Within the 
                Department of Justice), is hereby revoked.

                Sec. 4. 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.
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                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    January 3, 2025.

[FR Doc. 2025-00611
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