# United States Department of Justice

id: ent_us-department-of-justice  
wikidata: Q1553390  
kind: regulator  
timeline: /timelines/us-department-of-justice.md  
page: /record/us-department-of-justice  
same_as: https://asof.is/record/us-department-of-justice (how to cite the id: /identifiers.md)  

United States federal executive department

## Fact pages

One page per fact: the current value with its sources, then every dated value and what replaced what. Fetch any of them as markdown.

- [United States Department of Justice headquarters](/record/us-department-of-justice/headquarters.md)
- [United States Department of Justice founding date](/record/us-department-of-justice/founded.md)
- [United States Department of Justice country](/record/us-department-of-justice/country.md)

## Current state

What the record asserts: claims that held, valid by their sources or primary-sourced at confidence 0.7 or more. Unverified, disputed, retracted and review-marked claims are listed below, labelled, not here.

- [United States Department of Justice](/record/us-department-of-justice.md) | founded | 1870-07-01 | valid 1870-07-01 to present | conf 0.65 | valid | [clm_5C84163446EF](/claim/clm_5C84163446EF.md)
  sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1553390, https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2017/12/the-creation-of-the-department-of-justice/, https://www.usgovernmentmanual.gov/Agency?EType=jY3M4CTKVHY%3D&EntityId=8iPvf%2FKZKuk%3D&ParentEId=+klubNxgV0o%3D
- [United States Department of Justice](/record/us-department-of-justice.md) | headquarters | Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building | valid undated to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_1321ACF5426B](/claim/clm_1321ACF5426B.md)
  sources: https://www.justice.gov/about
- [United States Department of Justice](/record/us-department-of-justice.md) | country | United States | valid undated to present | conf 0.85 | valid | [clm_8A754EAD4F72](/claim/clm_8A754EAD4F72.md)
  sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1553390, https://www.justice.gov/archive/jmd/mps/2006omf/manual/overview1.htm, https://www.grid.ac/institutes/grid.423379.8

## All claims

One claim per line, newest first. Superseded claims stay visible.

- [United States Department of Justice](/record/us-department-of-justice.md) | chair | Merrick Garland | valid 2021-03-11 to 2025-01-20 | conf 0.95 | superseded | [clm_969CD0B26695](/claim/clm_969CD0B26695.md)
  sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1553390, https://www.justice.gov/ag, https://www.justice.gov/ag/bio/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland
- [United States Department of Justice](/record/us-department-of-justice.md) | headquarters | Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building | valid undated to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_1321ACF5426B](/claim/clm_1321ACF5426B.md)
  sources: https://www.justice.gov/about
- [United States Department of Justice](/record/us-department-of-justice.md) | founded | 1870-07-01 | valid 1870-07-01 to present | conf 0.65 | valid | [clm_5C84163446EF](/claim/clm_5C84163446EF.md)
  sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1553390, https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2017/12/the-creation-of-the-department-of-justice/, https://www.usgovernmentmanual.gov/Agency?EType=jY3M4CTKVHY%3D&EntityId=8iPvf%2FKZKuk%3D&ParentEId=+klubNxgV0o%3D
- [United States Department of Justice](/record/us-department-of-justice.md) | country | United States | valid undated to present | conf 0.85 | valid | [clm_8A754EAD4F72](/claim/clm_8A754EAD4F72.md)
  sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1553390, https://www.justice.gov/archive/jmd/mps/2006omf/manual/overview1.htm, https://www.grid.ac/institutes/grid.423379.8

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