United States Department of Justice
United States Department of Justice | |
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Set up: | June 22, 1870 |
Seat: | Robert F. Kennedy Building , Washington, DC |
Supervisory authority: | President of the United States |
minister | William Barr |
Deputy | Jeffrey A. Rosen |
Household: | $ 29.9 billion (2019) |
Employees: | 113,114 (2019) |
Homepage: | www.justice.gov |
The United States Department of Justice ( English United States Department of Justice , DOJ ) is a Federal Ministry of the United States whose primary responsibility lie in the administration of justice and law enforcement. The United States Attorney General presides over the Department of Justice .
history
Originally, the office of Attorney General was held by a single person. Until 1819, the Attorney General advised both the President and Congress . As the workload increased, many of his original functions were transferred to other officials.
The Legal Committee of the House of Representatives examined the creation of a ministry in 1867 under the leadership of the Attorney General and composed of other state lawyers. The committee chairman William Lawrence presented on February 19, 1868 a bill for a Justice Department to be set up, but did not pursue the proposal because of the impeachment proceedings against US President Andrew Johnson taking place at the same time .
A second draft has been prepared by representatives of Rhode Island , Thomas Jenckes , presented on February 25 1870th After both houses of the US Congress had approved, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the law on June 22, 1870. The new ministry began work on July 1, 1870. The law changed little in the duties of the Attorney General , but created a new office with the Solicitor General , which was responsible for representing the United States in most court cases.
building
The Justice Department building was built in 1935 to a design by Milton Bennett Medary . After Medary's death in 1929, the project was taken over by the other partners in the architectural firm. A building with a total area of more than 92,000 square meters was built on the site in the Federal Triangle between Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenue and Ninth and Tenth Street. The sculptor C. Paul Jennewein was responsible for the interior design of the entire building. In 2001 the building was named after him in memory of the former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy .
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Departments
- Antitrust Division
- Civil Division
- Civil Rights Division
- Criminal Division
- Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD)
- Justice Management Division (JMD)
- National Security Division (NSD)
- Tax Division
Law enforcement and enforcement
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)
- United States Marshals Service (USMS)
Authorities
- Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)
- Executive Office for US Attorneys (EOUSA)
- Executive Office of the United States Trustee (EOUST)
- Office of Attorney Recruitment and Management
- Office of the Chief Information Officer
- Office of Dispute Resolution
- Office of the Federal Detention Trustee
- Office of Information and Privacy
- Office of the Inspector General (OIG)
- Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR)
- Office of Intergovernmental and Public Liaison
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Office of Justice Programs (OJP)
- Bureau of Justice Assistance
- Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Community Capacity Development Office
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- National Institute of Justice
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
- Office of the Police Corps
- Office for Victims of Crime
- Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)
- Office of Legal Policy (OLP)
- Office of Legislative Affairs
- Office of the Ombudsperson
- Office of the Pardon Attorney
- Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR)
- Office of Public Affairs
- Office on Sexual Violence and Crimes against Children
- Office of Tribal Justice
- Office on Violence Against Women
- Professional Responsibility Advisory Office (PRAO)
- United States Attorneys Offices
- United States Trustees Offices
- Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)
- Community Relations Service
Further positions
- Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States
- INTERPOL , US National Central Bureau
- National Drug Intelligence Center
- United States Parole Commission
The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was dissolved in March 2003 and its tasks were transferred to the newly created Department of Homeland Security . The Executive Office for Immigration Review and the Board of Immigration Appeals remained in place as the authorities responsible for reviewing authority decisions based on immigration and citizenship law within the Department of Justice.
Political selection of new lawyers
In June 2008, according to a report by the US Department of Justice inspector, it became known that since 2002 the Department has used "political or ideological" factors in the selection of its new lawyers. New applicants were therefore checked for conservative or liberal perspectives and then the conservatively oriented applicants were employed “with a significantly higher proportion”. Memberships in liberal organizations such as the American Constitution Society , Greenpeace or the Poverty and Race Research Action Council were classified as particularly negative. Applicants affiliated with the well-known Conservative Federalist Society received particularly positive ratings.
The International Herald Tribune and the New York Times jointly come to the following conclusion:
"For the first time ever, an official investigation showed that many allegations were confirmed by critics who accused the Justice Department of being overly politicized during the Bush administration."
Individual evidence
- ^ Office of the Attorney General / Department of Justice . Retrieved February 3, 2019.
- ↑ Eric Lichtblau: Report sees illegal hiring practices at US Justice Dept. International Herald Tribune , June 24, 2008
- ↑ Eric Lichtblau: Report Sees Illegal Hiring Practices at Justice Dept. New York Times , June 25, 2008
Web links
- Website of the Ministry of Justice (English)