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Department of Justice

Department of Justice is named in 321 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 1908 to 2026.

321 events From Jul 26, 1908 To May 29, 2026 Open in filter view →
Department of Justice on the timeline 321 events · 1908–2026 · click any marker
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DateEventLanesStatus
1982-01-08AT&T Breakup Settlement Finalized, Becoming Last Major Antitrust Action for Decades 3 src
AT&T · Department of Justice · Ronald Reagan · Robert Bork
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1981-04-13Reagan Appoints William Baxter as Antitrust Chief, Enforcement Collapses as Chicago School Takes Control 4 src
Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Department of Justice · Stanford Law School · +1
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1981-01-20Reagan Inauguration Begins Antitrust Revolution: Eight Years of Systematic Enforcement Collapse and Corporate Consolidation 4 src
Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Douglas Ginsburg · Robert Bork · +4
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1978-10-25Carter Signs Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Creating FISC, Nominal Constraint on Domestic Surveillance 3 src
Jimmy Carter · Ted Kennedy · Birch Bayh · Church Committee · +2
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1977-01-01Department of Justice Announces Abandonment of Robinson-Patman Act Enforcement, Adopting Chicago School Critique 4 src
Department of Justice · Robert Bork · Federal Trade Commission · Chicago School of Economics
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1976-09-30Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Requires Pre-Merger Notification, Last Major Antitrust Strengthening Before Reagan Dismantlement 4 src
Gerald Ford · Senator Philip Hart · Senator Hugh Scott · Representative Peter Rodino · +2
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1976-03-10Attorney General Levi Issues First Written Guidelines Limiting FBI Domestic Security Investigations 2 src
Edward H. Levi · Gerald Ford · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Clarence Kelley · +1
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1972-06-19Supreme Court Keith Decision Requires Warrants for Domestic Security Surveillance, Reserves Foreign Intelligence Question 3 src
Lewis Powell · Damon Keith · White Panther Party · Department of Justice · +1
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1960-05-06Civil Rights Act of 1960: Voting Referees and Criminal Penalties Still Prove Inadequate Against Southern Resistance 3 src
Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · Lyndon B. Johnson · Southern Democrats · +1
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1957-06-17Yates v. United States Limits Smith Act Prosecutions, Supreme Court Begins Retreat from McCarthyism 6 src
Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · Oleta O'Connor Yates · Communist Party USA · +1
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1951-06-04Dennis v. United States Supreme Court Upholds Smith Act Convictions, Criminalizes Political Advocacy 3 src
Fred Vinson · U.S. Supreme Court · Eugene Dennis · Communist Party USA · +1
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1950-09-23McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Requires Communist Registration 3 src
Pat McCarran · Karl Mundt · Harry Truman · Hubert Humphrey · +5
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1944-12-18Korematsu v. United States - Supreme Court Upholds Japanese Internment 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Fred Korematsu · Hugo Black · Robert Jackson · +3
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1942-12-21Anaconda Wire and Cable Indicted for $6 Million Fraud Selling Defective Equipment 3 src
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 3 src
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 3 src
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 3 src
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 5 src
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 3 src
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 3 src
Woodrow Wilson · Bernard Baruch · Herbert Hoover · William McAdoo · +2
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1908-07-26Bonaparte Creates Bureau of Investigation Inside DOJ, Bypassing Congressional Opposition 3 src
Attorney General Charles Bonaparte · President Theodore Roosevelt · Stanley Finch · Department of Justice · +1
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