The OLC's Opinions
Opinions published by the OLC, including those released in response to our FOIA lawsuit
This Reading Room is a comprehensive database of published opinions written by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). It contains the approximately 1,400 opinions published by the OLC in its online database and the opinions produced in Freedom of Information Act litigation brought by the Knight Institute, including opinions about the Pentagon Papers, the Civil Rights Era, and the War Powers Act. It also contains indexes of unclassified OLC opinions written between 1945 and February 15, 1994 (these indexes were created by the OLC and intended to be comprehensive). We have compiled those indexes into a single list here and in .csv format here. This Reading Room also contains an index of all classified OLC opinions issued between 1974 and 2021, except those classified or codeword-classified at a level higher than Top Secret (the OLC created this index, too, and intended it to be comprehensive).
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Showing 1911–1920 of 2202
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Rules of Conduct for Federal Judges
7/27/2020
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Request of the Department of Agriculture that it be authorized to begin submitting resource conservation and development loans and rural renewal loans in excess of $250,000 to the committees of Congress for approval
7/27/2020
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Refund of $3.00 fee to James C. Daniel under the Freedom of Information Act
7/27/2020
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Legislation to Afford District of Columbia a Non-Voting Delegate in the House of Representatives
7/27/2020
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Whether the President's memorandum of March 24, 1969 concerning Executive Privilege requires any change to your regulations in 5 CFR §§ 294.501(b) and 294.703(b).
7/27/2020
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Proposed legislation to prohibit picketing in the vicinity of the Executive Mansion
10/27/2020
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Memorandum of May 21, 1969 to White House Staff re: Contacts with Independent Regulatory Agencies.
10/27/2020
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Constitutional immunity of a federal justice or judge from criminal prosecution
7/27/2020
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Authority of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide launch services to a foreign government for a domestic communications satellite system
7/27/2020
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Draft legislation submitted by the Post Office Department pertaining to the mailing of sexually oriented advertisements
7/27/2020