Executive Order 14111-Interagency Security Committee
Issued 2023-11-27 by Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Plain-English Overview
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Executive Order 14111, signed in late 2023, reauthorizes and updates the Interagency Security Committee, the body responsible for developing security standards and best practices for non-military federal facilities across the United States. The order continues the ISC's mandate to coordinate security policies for federal buildings, ensuring consistent, government-wide standards for access control, physical security, and the protection of federal workers and visitors at thousands of federal facilities.
The order affects all federal agencies that occupy non-military federal buildings, the security personnel who protect those facilities, and the millions of federal employees and members of the public who use them daily. By maintaining a standing interagency body for facility security coordination, the order helps ensure that security standards evolve in response to changing threats.
Executive orders establishing or reauthorizing interagency coordination bodies for security functions are a well-established exercise of presidential authority over the executive branch. The ISC has operated under successive executive orders since 1995, and this order continues that tradition within the President's clear Article II authority to manage executive branch operations.
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Constitutional Analysis
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Executive Order 14111 addresses "Executive Order 14111-Interagency Security Committee". The President's stated reasoning: "continuing Government-wide security for Federal facilities, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1 ." Executive orders are a long-established exercise of presidential power, used by every President since George Washington. They are grounded in Article II of the Constitution, which vests executive power in the President and directs them to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."
Executive orders cannot create new law, contradict existing federal statutes, or exceed the President's constitutional authority. The legitimacy of any specific order depends on whether it operates within statutory authority Congress has delegated, directs the executive branch on matters within its constitutional purview, or attempts to substitute executive policy for legislative choices. Courts can and do review executive orders for conformity with the Constitution and federal law.
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