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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“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”
Louis D. Brandeis
