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Department of Justice

Department of Justice is named in 315 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 1908 to 2026.

315 events From Jul 26, 1908 To Mar 13, 2026 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
1976-03-10Attorney General Levi Issues First Written Guidelines Limiting FBI Domestic Security Investigations
Edward H. Levi · Gerald Ford · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Clarence Kelley · +1
confirmed
1972-06-19Supreme Court Keith Decision Requires Warrants for Domestic Security Surveillance, Reserves Foreign Intelligence Question
Lewis Powell · Damon Keith · White Panther Party · Department of Justice · +1
confirmed
1960-05-06Civil Rights Act of 1960: Voting Referees and Criminal Penalties Still Prove Inadequate Against Southern Resistance
Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · Lyndon B. Johnson · Southern Democrats · +1
confirmed
1957-06-17Yates v. United States Limits Smith Act Prosecutions, Supreme Court Begins Retreat from McCarthyism
Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · Oleta O'Connor Yates · Communist Party USA · +1
confirmed
1951-06-04Dennis v. United States Supreme Court Upholds Smith Act Convictions, Criminalizes Political Advocacy
Fred Vinson · U.S. Supreme Court · Eugene Dennis · Communist Party USA · +1
confirmed
1950-09-23McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Requires Communist Registration
Pat McCarran · Karl Mundt · Harry Truman · Hubert Humphrey · +5
confirmed
1944-12-18Korematsu v. United States - Supreme Court Upholds Japanese Internment
U.S. Supreme Court · Fred Korematsu · Hugo Black · Robert Jackson · +3
confirmed
1942-12-21Anaconda Wire and Cable Indicted for $6 Million Fraud Selling Defective Equipment
Anaconda Wire and Cable Company · Department of Justice · Truman Committee · Francis Biddle
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1942-03-26Standard Oil-IG Farben Cartel Exposed, Senator Truman Calls It Treason
Standard Oil of New Jersey · IG Farben · Harry Truman · Thurman Arnold · +2
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1940-06-28Smith Act Criminalizes Advocacy of Government Overthrow, Enables Political Persecution
Howard W. Smith · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Franklin D. Roosevelt
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1920-08-23Sacco and Vanzetti Arrested in Red Scare Climate of Anti-Immigrant Hysteria
Nicola Sacco · Bartolomeo Vanzetti · Frederick Katzmann · Webster Thayer · +1
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1920-01-02Palmer Raids Escalate with Coordinated Mass Arrests Across 33 Cities
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer · J. Edgar Hoover · Department of Justice · Acting Secretary of Labor Louis Post
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1919-08-01Hoover Named to Lead Justice Department Radical Division, Origin of Permanent Political Dossier System
J. Edgar Hoover · A. Mitchell Palmer · Department of Justice · General Intelligence Division
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1917-06-15Wilson-Era Wartime Executive Architecture: Espionage Act, War Powers Statutes Build Permanent Emergency-Authority Template
Woodrow Wilson · Bernard Baruch · Herbert Hoover · William McAdoo · +2
confirmed
1908-07-26Bonaparte Creates Bureau of Investigation Inside DOJ, Bypassing Congressional Opposition
Attorney General Charles Bonaparte · President Theodore Roosevelt · Stanley Finch · Department of Justice · +1
confirmed

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