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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. [10] 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 ...
The OIG conducts independent investigations, audits, inspections, and special reviews of United States Department of Justice personnel and programs. The OIG completes these tasks to detect and deter waste, fraud, abuse, and misconduct, and to promote integrity, economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in Department of Justice operations.
Based on government data, lawyers, advocates for criminal justice advocates, and former officials from both the White House and pardon, President Trump regularly bypassed the pardon attorney, according to a 2020 investigation by The Washington Post. Unlike previous presidents, Trump has granted clemency to "well-connected offenders who had not ...
The Justice Department said Tuesday that government documents recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate were “likely concealed and removed” from a storage room as part ...
The estate of Malcolm X is suing the federal government, accusing it of playing a role in the 1965 assassination of the civil rights leader. In a lawsuit filed against the Department of Justice ...
The OARM oversees many programs regarding law school and attorney assistance and internships. The OARM is the DOJ's adjudicative office in FBI Whistleblower cases. [2] Under the Freedom of Information Act (United States) (FOIA) requests for the OARM are handled by the Justice Management Division. [3]
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EOIR was created in 1983 by the Department of Justice (DOJ) as part of an internal reorganization. [6] Prior to 1983, the functions performed by EOIR were divided among different agencies. The earliest version of a specialized immigration service was the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), created in 1933, in the Department of Labor. [7]