#43Americans · To the President of the United States
The order already exists.
We are not asking for a new policy, a new office, or a new rule. On 20 January 2025 the President signed an order directing a review of exactly what happened to us. We are asking that the review reach our cases.
Executive Order 14147 · Signed 20 January 2025
Ending the Weaponization
of the Federal Government
Section 2 — Policy
It is the policy of the United States to identify and take appropriate action to correct past misconduct by the Federal Government related to the weaponization of law enforcement.
Section 3(a) — What the Attorney General is directed to do
… review the activities of all departments and agencies exercising civil or criminal enforcement authority of the United States, including, but not limited to, the Department of Justice … over the last 4 years and identify any instances where a department’s or agency’s conduct appears to have been contrary to the purposes and policies of this order, and prepare a report to be submitted to the President … with recommendations for appropriate remedial actions.
Verbatim from the order as published in the Federal Register, 90 FR 8235, 28 January 2025. Read Executive Order 14147 in full →
We are inside the window the order describes.
Every case documented on this site was charged, tried, or resolved by the Department of Justice within the four years the order directs the Attorney General to review. Forty-three of them. Nurses, doctors, veterans, engineers, software developers, small business owners, public servants, parents.
Thirteen are in a cell tonight. Two report to custody on 29 October. Eleven were charged and later cleared — acquitted, dismissed, reversed, or never charged at all — and it cost them everything anyway.
The order says the policy of the United States is to correct past misconduct. We are the past misconduct.
We do not claim our cases are the only ones. Nobody counts the rest. There is no federal registry of Americans who were charged and later cleared, or ruined before anything was proven. We are forty-three because forty-three of us found each other. That is the whole of how this record got built.
What we are asking
- Include our cases in the review. The order directs the Attorney General to identify conduct contrary to its purposes over the last four years. Ours are documented, sourced, and public. Every filing we rely on is linked on the case pages, and any one of them can be checked against the docket in an afternoon.
- Let the recommendations reach the President. The order requires a report to the President with recommendations for appropriate remedial actions. No public report has identified our cases. We are asking that it reach us.
- Grant the relief the record warrants. A pardon, a commutation, or whatever the White House deems appropriate, case by case, on the facts. Some of us are in prison. Some finished our sentences and carry the conviction. Some were never convicted of anything and carry the press release. The relief is not the same for all of us, and we are not asking for it to be.
Article II gives the President this power on any day he decides to use it. It needs no anniversary and no new authority.
What we are not asking for
Not to be believed. We are asking for the record to be read. Every case page prints the government’s account alongside ours, including the facts that cut against us.
Not a finding of innocence. Clemency has never been one. It is the constitutional power to fix a sentence that does not match what a person did, or a process that went wrong in a way the courts will not correct.
Not an accusation against any individual. Nothing on this site names a prosecutor, an agent or a judge as having acted corruptly or unlawfully, and nothing on it accuses anyone of a crime. We state what the Department did, and when.
And not money. We have never paid anyone a dollar for access. No lobbyists, no consultants, no intermediaries. Every one of us filed through the channels available to any citizen.
The plain version
A country does not get
to be great and do this
at the same time.
Forty-three documented federal cases, all of them inside the four-year window the order directs the Attorney General to review. This names no individual prosecutor, agent or judge, and accuses nobody of a crime.
Read one case first.
We are not asking anyone to take our word for it. Read one. Follow the links. Then look at what the Department gave the co-defendants.
A note on this page
Both passages quoted above are verbatim from Executive Order 14147 as published in the Federal Register on 28 January 2025, and the full text is linked so anyone can check them in context. This page does not characterize what the Attorney General has or has not done under the order. It states what the order directs, states that our cases fall inside the period it covers, and asks that the review reach them.
If any passage on this page does not match the record, tell us and we will correct it.