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The attorney general is supported by the Office of the Attorney General, which includes executive staff and several deputy attorneys general. The attorney general is a Level I position in the Executive Schedule and thus earns the salary prescribed for that level: $250,600, as of January 2025.
The division was established on December 9, 1957, by order of Attorney General William P. Rogers, after the Civil Rights Act of 1957 created the head office of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights (AAG-CR; appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate).
Vanita Gupta (born November 15, 1974) [1] is an American attorney who served as United States Associate Attorney General from April 22, 2021, to February 2, 2024. [2] From 2014 to 2017, Gupta served as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division under President Barack Obama. [3]
reformer, co-founder of the Hull House and American Civil Liberties Union, 1931 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ida B. Wells: 1862 1931 United States: journalist, early activist in 20th-century civil rights movement, women's suffrage/voting rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois: 1868 1963 United States: writer, scholar, founder of NAACP Kasturba Gandhi ...
This act also provided many other benefits within various sectors of the government. Within the treasury it established a civil liberties public education fund. It directed the Attorney General to identify and locate each individual affected by this act and to pay them $20,000 from the civil liberties public education fund.
The 1960s was a tumultuous era in the United States, and public interest in civil liberties underwent explosive growth. [237] Civil liberties actions in the 1960s were often led by young people and often employed tactics such as sit ins and marches. Protests were often peaceful but sometimes employed militant tactics. [238]
GOP senators had signaled skepticism about Matt Gaetz as attorney general. Trump instead names another loyalist, former Florida Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi.
As district attorney (D.A.) in San Francisco, she opposed the death penalty. As attorney general of California, she favored the death penalty by fighting against a state court ruling it ...