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Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen
Jeffrey A. Rosen
Deputy Attorney General

Jeffrey A. Rosen is the 38th Deputy Attorney General of the United States.  In this role, he acts as the Department of Justice’s Chief Operating Officer and advises and assists the Attorney General in leading the Department’s more than 110,000 employees.  President Trump announced his intent to nominate Mr. Rosen to this position on February 19, 2019, and the U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination on May 16, 2019.

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Justice News

August 11, 2020
Press Release
Justice Department Releases Report On Modernizing The Administrative Procedure Act
July 9, 2020
Speech
Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen Delivers Remarks at the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #5
June 30, 2020
Press Release
The Justice Department, Department of Health and Human Services, and the Federal Trade Commission Partner to Alert Public of Contact Tracing COVID-19 Fraud Schemes
June 15, 2020
Press Release
Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen Issues Further Update to Memo on the Applicability of the Wire Act to Non-Sports Gambling
June 9, 2020
Speech
Joint Statement by Associate Deputy Attorney General William Hughes and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito before the Senate Judiciary Committee
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New York Times Op-Ed: The Federal Death Penalty Can Be Administered Fairly

July 27, 2020
Courtesy of Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen
This month, for the first time in 17 years , the United States resumed carrying out death sentences for federal crimes. On July 14, Daniel Lewis Lee was executed for the 1996 murder of a family, including an 8-year-old girl, by suffocating and drowning them in the Illinois Bayou after robbing them to fund a white-supremacist organization. On July 16, Wesley Purkey was executed for the 1998 murder of a teenage girl, whom he kidnapped, raped, killed, dismembered and discarded in a septic pond. The next day, Dustin Honken was executed for five murders committed in 1993, including the execution-style shooting of two young girls, their mother, and two prospective witnesses against him in a federal prosecution for methamphetamine trafficking.
Updated July 27, 2020

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER OP-ED: SAFE INJECTION SITES ENABLE DRUG USERS AND ENDANGER COMMUNITIES

February 3, 2020
Courtesy of Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen
America’s opioid crisis is a monumental issue. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, two out of three overdose deaths involve opioids. Fatal overdoses from opioids increased almost six times since 1999, peaking in 2017 at almost 50,000 deaths before declining for the first time in decades in 2018 as the administration’s opioid response started taking hold. Instead of advocating for common-sense solutions, some groups across the country are advocating for what could be...
Updated February 18, 2020

Introduction to the Department of Justice Journal of Federal Law and Practice

November 30, 2019
Courtesy of Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen
There are few concepts more fundamental to our system of government than the rule of law. The safety, security, and prosperity we enjoy are rooted in the principle that we are all accountable under a set of clearly established laws that apply equally to everyone. In the late seventeenth century, political philosopher John Locke advocated for a rule-of-law system in which government was "directed to no other end but the peace, safety, and public good of the people" and citizens were governed by...
Updated August 7, 2020

Washington Post Op-Ed: ‘Social justice reform’ is no justice at all

November 27, 2019
Courtesy of Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen
Thanks to sensible law enforcement policies, violent crime rates dropped by half nationwide over the past three decades. Although increases occurred in 2015-2016, the rates again dropped during the first two years of the Trump administration. But reductions in crime are neither automatic nor inevitable. They are the result of federal, state and local law enforcement and prosecutors working together to enforce the laws. Unfortunately, a trend is emerging that could threaten the hard-fought...
Updated December 2, 2019
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