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| limit | Max entries to return (1–4500) | 25 |
| offset | Pagination offset | 0 |
| tag | Filter by subject area tag name (e.g. Immigration) | — |
| pattern | Filter by pattern tag name (e.g. Norm Break) | — |
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| q | Search query. Supports operators: type:court tier:1 person:trump tag:immigration conf:disputed date:2020 /regex/ | required |
| limit | Max results (1–500) | 25 |
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| text | The statement, post, or claim to check (string, required) | — |
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| type | Filter by entity type: person, organization, government_body, location | all types |
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| tag | Filter by subject area tag (e.g. Immigration) | — |
| pattern | Filter by pattern tag (e.g. Norm Break, Contradiction, Oversight Resistance) | — |
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| format | csv or json | json |
| tag | Filter by subject area | — |
| pattern | Filter by pattern tag | — |
| tier | Filter by evidence tier (1, 2, or 3) | — |
| conf | Filter by confidence level (high, medium, unresolved, disputed) | — |
| from | Start date (YYYY-MM-DD) | — |
| to | End date (YYYY-MM-DD) | — |
Each sequence traces a single thread of executive conduct across time — from the origin event through litigation, reversals, escalations, and outcomes. Click any sequence to follow the chain.
Prior claims documented alongside later actions and statements that materially contradict them. Sourced, dated, elapsed time calculated.
The Executive Conduct Archive documents actions, decisions, statements, and executive conduct that meet three simultaneous tests: executive branch origin, institutional significance, and source verification. Events that fail any one of the three are not included.
The archive covers conduct by the President, the White House, executive agencies, and executive officials. Executive-adjacent actors are included when their conduct is directly tied to executive action, investigations, oversight, obstruction, corruption, or abuse of power. Generic political news, commentary, campaign statements without downstream institutional consequence, and repetitive procedural filler are excluded by design.
The archive currently documents the Trump administration from the June 2015 campaign announcement through the present. It is designed to be administration-agnostic and will expand to cover additional administrations under identical standards.
An event is included only when it touches at least one of the following: constitutional structure, governmental process, legal precedent, agency action, rights impact, or practical effect on people or policy. Events that are institutionally consequential but not yet resolved are included and labeled accordingly. Events that produce no institutional consequence are not included regardless of news prominence.
| Tier 1 | Primary sources: Federal Register records, White House archived statements, DOJ and agency official releases, Congress.gov, court filings and opinions, Inspector General reports, GAO reports, FEC filings, and official state attorney general releases. A Tier 1 source alone is sufficient for publication. |
| Tier 2 | High-confidence reporting from accredited outlets with established editorial standards: AP, Reuters, New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, PBS, Politico, Bloomberg, BBC, Lawfare, SCOTUSblog, and equivalent specialist legal and policy publications. Tier 2 sources are used to corroborate and contextualize. Overreliance on a single wire service is avoided. |
| Tier 3 | Early or single-source claims, partisan outlets, podcasts, and social media. Used for monitoring only. Not published without independent Tier 1 or Tier 2 corroboration. |
| High | Confirmed by a primary source or multiple independent Tier 2 sources. The underlying fact is not in dispute. |
| Medium | Credibly reported but not fully corroborated. Reasonable confidence, not certainty. |
| Unresolved | Pending outcome: ongoing litigation, open investigation, developing story, or unanswered allegation. |
| Disputed | The subject, their representatives, or credible counter-sources actively deny or contradict the claim. |
Entries are tagged when they exhibit documented behavioral patterns: norm breaks, oversight resistance, and self-dealing. Pattern tags are applied editorially based on the documented record, not on characterization. An entry tagged as a norm break must reference a specific prior norm or practice it departs from. An entry tagged as oversight resistance must document a concrete act of refusal, obstruction, or delay directed at a legitimate oversight function.
When the archive documents a prior claim and a later action or statement that materially contradicts it, both are recorded with source attribution, dates, and elapsed time between positions. Contradiction records are linked to the relevant entries. The elapsed time shown is calculated from the date of the prior claim to the date of the contradicting event. Contradictions are documented, not characterized — the record shows what was said and what occurred.
Each entry is classified against a controlled vocabulary of event types, subject areas, constitutional tags, doctrine tags, and pattern tags. The taxonomy is not invented entry by entry — it follows a canonical schema maintained across the archive. This allows reliable filtering and prevents classification drift over time. Doctrine tags reference specific legal and constitutional doctrines invoked or implicated by the event, such as Presidential Immunity, Unitary Executive Theory, Major Questions Doctrine, or Removal Power.
No unsourced assertions. No emotionally loaded or accusatory language. Allegations are separated from established fact and labeled as allegations. Court findings are labeled as court findings. Official responses are recorded when available. All entries are reviewed by a human editor before publication. Corrections and additions are preserved in the entry record — nothing is silently deleted. Updates to existing entries are tracked with version history.
It is not a news outlet, an opinion platform, or a partisan site. It does not editorialize. It does not publish commentary. Entries describe what happened, what the sources show, and what institutional consequences followed. The political valence of an event is not a factor in inclusion or exclusion — institutional significance is.
The Executive Conduct Archive is a structured, source-first record of documented actions, statements, executive orders, and decisions by the U.S. executive branch. It is not an opinion platform, a partisan site, or a news outlet.
Every entry is sourced, reviewed by a human editor, and published only when the evidentiary standard is met. Allegations are labeled as allegations. Court findings are labeled as court findings. Official responses are recorded when available. Contradictions between prior statements and current actions are documented with dates, elapsed time, and source attribution.
The archive currently documents the Trump administration from the 2015 campaign announcement through the present day. It is designed to be administration-agnostic and will expand to cover future administrations under identical standards.
| Tier 1 | Primary sources: executive orders, court filings, congressional transcripts, official video and audio recordings, agency documents, financial disclosures, and direct official statements. |
| Tier 2 | High-confidence reporting from accredited news organizations with established editorial standards: AP, Reuters, Bloomberg, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, BBC, Financial Times, The Guardian, and equivalent international outlets. |
| Tier 3 | Early or lead sources — TMZ, podcasts, single-source claims, partisan outlets — used for monitoring only. Not published without independent Tier 1 or Tier 2 corroboration. |
| High | Confirmed by a primary source or multiple independent Tier 2 sources. The underlying fact is not in dispute. |
| Medium | Credibly reported but not yet fully corroborated. Reasonable confidence, not certainty. |
| Unresolved | Pending outcome: ongoing litigation, open investigation, developing story, or unanswered allegation. |
| Disputed | The subject, their representatives, or credible counter-sources actively deny or contradict the claim. |
No unsourced assertions. No emotionally loaded or accusatory language. Allegations separated from established fact. All entries reviewed by a human editor before publication. Corrections and retractions are preserved in the record, not deleted.
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