Reading Room Document
Senatorial Courtesy
The custom known as "senatorial courtesy," whereby certain nominations to federal office have been objected to by an individual senator on the ground that the person nominated is not acceptable to him, appears recently to have been limited to local offices of the federal government. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/20686/download.
The OLC's Opinions
Opinions published by the OLC, including those released in response to our FOIA lawsuit