“Biden pledged to issue an executive order to prevent the White House from improperly influencing Justice Department investigations or prosecutions, and to strengthen whistleblower laws so that any federal employee who learns of an improper attempt to influence a DOJ investigation or prosecution knows how to report it and receives full protection against retaliation by anyone.”
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Biden's first-day Executive Order 13989 (Jan. 20, 2021) required every executive-branch appointee to pledge conduct that 'precludes improper interference' with DOJ investigative or prosecutorial decisions, and a July 21, 2021 White House Counsel memorandum barred White House staff from discussing specific pending investigations or cases with DOJ absent rare and exceptional circumstances. That delivered the promised anti-interference safeguard, partly through a binding counsel policy rather than a stand-alone executive order. The second element - strengthening whistleblower laws so any federal employee who reports an improper attempt to influence a DOJ investigation receives full protection against retaliation - was not enacted into law during his 2021-2025 term. The interference-prevention half was substantially kept; the whistleblower-statute half was not.
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