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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Administrative Procedures Study - Public Land Law Review Commission.
7/27/2020
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Should the Department of Justice Oppose the Inclusion of Article V in the Proposed Protocol on Aircraft Piracy?
7/27/2020
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Judicial appointment as affected by constitutional disqualification
7/27/2020
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Legal advice by the Department of Justice on matters personal to members of the White House staff
10/27/2020
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Possible Conflict of Interest of Assistant United States Attorney [redacted]
5/16/2022
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Use of President's Salary Increase to Defer Official Expenses
10/27/2020
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Establishment of Office of Criminal Justice
7/27/2020
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"Bail Reform" or "Preventive Detention"
7/27/2020
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Payment of fees for private physicians appointed under section 303 of the Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act (42 U.S.C. § 3413)
7/27/2020
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Power of the President to withdraw a prior presidential approval of a CAB decision in a foreign air transportation case.
10/27/2020