The United States Attorney for the Southern District of California is the United States Attorney responsible for representing the federal government in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
The current United States Attorney is Laura Duffy.
The main office is in San Diego, with a branch office in Imperial.
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“Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (19211990)
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—Andrew Jackson (17671845)
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—Truman Capote (19241984)
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—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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—Woody Guthrie (19121967)