Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

Gene Hamilton

xviii Authors, in the Mandate (2023)

“Gene Hamilton is Vice-President and General Counsel of America First Legal Foundation. Gene served as Counselor to the Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice; Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Homeland Security; General Counsel on the Senate Committee on the Judiciary; Assistant Chief Counsel at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; and as an Attorney Advisor in the Secretary’s Honors Program for Attorneys at the Department of Homeland Security. Gene graduated from the Washington and Lee University School of Law magna cum laude and Order of the Coif and has a BA in international affairs from the University of Georgia.”

xxvii Contributors, in the Mandate (2023)

America First Legal Foundation

Held office

  1. Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel, White House Office

    In post as of Jul 1, 2025; gone by Jul 1, 2026

    2025 Annual Report to Congress on White House Office Personnel — lists Hamilton as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel Primary · Jul 1, 2025

    2026 Annual Report to Congress on White House Office Personnel — Hamilton is absent, so he had left by this date; the departure itself is not dated on any allowlisted page Primary · Jul 1, 2026

Bylined chapters

Major recommendations in those chapters

  1. Seek legislation eliminating the FBI Director's 10-year term Needs Congress Not started
  2. Carry out federal executions and pursue the death penalty Partially done
  3. Finalize the southwestern land border wall Partially done
  4. Restart the China Initiative Not started
  5. Seek to overturn Humphrey's Executor v. United States Done
  6. Have DOJ spearhead a government-wide nondiscrimination initiative Partially done
  7. Enforce 18 U.S.C. 1461-1462 against mailed abortion pills Not started
  8. Litigate to overturn the Flores Settlement Agreement Attempted

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