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The United States Department of Justice Criminal Division is a federal agency of the United States Department of Justice that develops, enforces, and supervises the application of all federal criminal laws in the United States. Criminal Division attorneys prosecute many nationally significant cases and formulate and implement criminal ...
On February 19, 1868, Lawrence introduced a bill in Congress to create the Department of Justice. President Ulysses S. Grant signed the bill into law on June 22, 1870. [8] Grant appointed Amos T. Akerman as attorney general and Benjamin H. Bristow as America's first solicitor general the same week that Congress created the Department of Justice ...
Office of Justice Programs — Assistant Attorney General (Office of Justice Programs) TBA — — Amy L. Solomon: May 2, 2023 (Confirmed April 18, 2023, 59–40) [RC 14] July 19, 2024 [13] — Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance. Karhlton F. Moore: February 28, 2022 — — Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Alex Piquero ...
Resignation announced by the Department of Justice on January 7, 2021. [25] The New York Times noted that his resignation did not specifically refer to the events of the prior day. [26] Assistant Attorney General (Civil Division) Jody Hunt: September 4, 2018 July 3, 2020 [27] Chief of Staff to the Attorney General February 2017 September 22, 2017
The Justice Management Division (JMD) is a division of the United States Department of Justice. It is the administrative arm of the Department of Justice. Its mission is to support some 40 senior management offices (SMOs), offices, bureaus, and divisions (collectively called components) of the DOJ. It was formerly called the Office of ...
The head of the National Security Division is an Assistant Attorney General for National Security (AAG-NS) appointed by the President of the United States. Matthew G. Olsen, the current AAG-NS, was confirmed to the role with the advice and consent of the Senate. [5]
The Division enforces the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, 1964, and 1968; the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended through 2006; the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974; the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
On February 16, 2017, Alexander Acosta, dean of the Florida International University College of Law and former Justice Department attorney, was officially selected to be the Secretary of Labor. [174] On April 27, 2017, Acosta was confirmed by the Senate in a vote of 60–38.