Secretary and Salary: Attorney General Merrick Garland $221,400
Fiscal year 2022 Budget Request: $35.3 Billion
Staffing: 112,482 Employees
Mission: To enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.
Creation: July 1, 1870
Historical Facts:
The Judiciary Act of 1789 created the Office of the Attorney General as a part time position
September 26, 1789 - Edmund Jennings Randolph was appointed first Attorney General
July 1, 1870 - The Department of Justice is created and Benjamin Bristow is appointed the first Solicitor General
Leadership:
Attorney General: Merrick Garland
Deputy Attorney General: Lisa Monaco
Solicitor General: Elizabeth Prelogar
Associate Attorney General: Vanita Gupta
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“A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.”
Will Durant
