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H.R. 1789 119th Congress House

Promptly Ending Political Prosecutions and Executive Retaliation Act of 2025

Official title: To amend title 28, United States Code, to clarify the removability of certain actions against current and former Presidents and other senior Executive officials, and for other purposes.

Introduced: March 3, 2025 Introduced by: Russell Fry Republican · South Carolina See on congress.gov
Law Federal officialsJudicial procedure and administrationPresidents and presidential powers, Vice PresidentsState and local courts
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 Everywhere this bill has been 6 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 21, 2025
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 18.
Mar 21, 2025
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 119-28.
Mar 5, 2025
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 14 - 11.
Mar 5, 2025
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Mar 3, 2025
Introduced in House
Mar 3, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 18.

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Promptly Ending Political Prosecutions and Executive Retaliation Act of 2025

This bill expands the types of federal officials who may remove (i.e., transfer) state cases brought against them to federal court. It also establishes a presumption of immunity for federal officials in these cases.

The federal officer removal statute authorizes certain defendants (e.g., federal officers) to remove to federal court a civil action or criminal prosecution brought against them in state court if the claims or charges relate to official duties. Often, defendants who invoke the federal officer removal statute raise claims of official immunity.

In recent years, the statute received public attention when then-former President Donald Trump and former officials sought to invoke the statute. For example, in Georgia v. Meadows, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows could not remove Georgia’s criminal prosecution of him to federal court based on the federal officer removal statute because it does not apply to former federal officers, and even if it did, the charges were not related to Meadows’s official duties.

This bill allows a defendant who is a former federal officer or current or former President or Vice President to remove state cases brought against them to federal court based on the federal officer removal statute. It also establishes a presumption that federal officials have immunity in cases that are removable, which may only be rebutted by a showing that their actions were not related to official duties.

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