Case file · 90 FR 20363
EO 14294 May 9, 2025 TIER 2MID-LEVEL FREEZE

Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations

Theater score 0/100

Detector flags: none; the theater here is self-evident or absent.

Immediate Impact

Directs agencies to stop criminally prosecuting people for obscure regulatory violations they could not have known existed.

Long-Term Outlook

Prosecutorial guidance reverses by memo, though defending the reversal would be its own adventure.

Primary sources: Federal RegisterOfficial PDF