Heritage Foundation's
Project 2025

Chapter 17 - Department of Justice

• Conduct an immediate review of all major active FBI investigations and activities.
• Realign FBI's placement within the DOJ, placing it under supervision of the Criminal Division and National Security Division.
• Prohibit FBI from engaging in activities related to combating misinformation and disinformation by Americans.
• Streamline non-law enforcement functions within the FBI, such as its Office of General Counsel.
• Emphasize, fund, and reward FBI field offices while shrinking headquarters staff.
• Submit legislation to eliminate the 10-year term for the FBI Director.
• Require U.S. Attorneys to develop plans to reduce violent crime in their districts.
• Enhance federal focus and resources in jurisdictions deemed to have "rule-of-law deficiencies."
• Pursue policies and legislation encouraging prosecution of violent crimes and appropriate sentences.
• Enforce the death penalty where applicable.
• Revitalize use of statutory tools for dealing with criminal organizations.
• Secure the border and take aggressive approach to tackling criminal organizations at the border.
• Restart the China Initiative.
• Pursue programs to educate about threats from actors like China and Iran.
• Review and eliminate "lawless" policies, investigations, and cases.
• Terminate unnecessary or outdated consent decrees.
• Enact policies prohibiting settlement payments to third parties.
• Issue guidance to ensure litigation decisions are consistent with the President's agenda.
• Affirm separation of powers and potentially seek overruling of Humphrey's Executor v. United States.
• Reassign responsibility for prosecuting election-related offenses from Civil Rights Division to Criminal Division.
• Reorganize and refocus the Civil Rights Division.
• Announce campaign to enforce criminal prohibitions against providers and distributors of abortion pills using mail.
• Reject third-party requests for politically motivated investigations or prosecutions.
• Overhaul DOJ grant application and distribution process.
• Issue guidance emphasizing importance of prosecuting immigration offenses.
• Examine and consider withdrawing immigration decisions rendered by previous administration.
• Pursue promulgation of immigration-related rules from previous administration.
• Commit resources to adjudication of immigration court cases.
• Pursue proactive litigation to advance restrictive immigration policies.
• Ensure deployment of appointees committed to immigration-related missions throughout DOJ.
• Pursue more vigorous anti-fraud program within Executive Office for Immigration Review.
• Increase number of political appointees throughout DOJ.
• End non-essential details of DOJ personnel.
• Review personnel sanctions and disciplinary actions from previous four years.
• Review DOJ hiring practices.
• Explore consolidation of various DOJ components and offices for efficiency.
• Review and potentially change reporting structures within DOJ.
• Seek legislative changes for Assistant U.S. Attorneys' compensation.
• Refocus Bureau of Justice Statistics and National Institute of Justice on core statistics and research.