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Department of Justice   /dɪpˈɑrtmənt əv dʒˈəstəs/   Listen
Department of Justice

noun
1.
The United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870.  Synonyms: DoJ, Justice, Justice Department.



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"Department of Justice" Quotes from Famous Books



... importation into the US of certain items from Antarctica; violation of the Antarctic Conservation Act carries penalties of up to $10,000 in fines and one year in prison; the National Science Foundation and Department of Justice share enforcement responsibilities; Public Law 95-541, the US Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978, as amended in 1996, requires expeditions from the US to Antarctica to notify, in advance, the Office of Oceans, Room 5805, ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... palace was chosen as the seat of Government. The ground floor, the upper floor and the attic, the picture galleries, even the vestibule of the Queen's Stairway and the servants' quarters served as offices for ministers and secretaries. The Department of Justice was installed in the Guards' Hall, the Oeil-de-Boeuf and the rooms of Marie Antoinette. The Secretary of Public Works directed his affairs within walls that had sheltered the nefarious Dubarry. The official Journal was printed in the palace kitchens. For several years the Opera House, the ...
— The Story of Versailles • Francis Loring Payne

... advised of the operations of the Department of Justice by the report of the Attorney-General, and I invite your attention to the amendments of existing laws suggested by him, with the view of reducing the expenses of ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... suspicion of ideas goes to extraordinary lengths, even for the United States, some of the newspapers actually denounced the book as German propaganda, designed to break down American morale, and called upon the Department of Justice to proceed against me for the crime known to American law as "criminal anarchy," i.e., "imagining the King's death." Why the Comstocks did not forbid it the mails as lewd and lascivious I have never been able to determine. ...
— In Defense of Women • H. L. Mencken

... capacity. It has not always been clear who is in charge of the police training mission, and the U.S. military lacks expertise in certain areas pertaining to police and the rule of law. The United States has been more successful in training the Iraqi Army than it has the police. The U.S. Department of Justice has the expertise and capacity to carry out the police training mission. The U.S. Department of Defense is already bearing too much of the burden in Iraq. Meanwhile, the pool of expertise in the United States on policing and the rule of law has ...
— The Iraq Study Group Report • United States Institute for Peace

... warrants issued for reservists holding fraudulent passports; Bureau of Investigation of Department of Justice is ...
— The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 • Various



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