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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The authority to accept gifts given to the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts by Section 10 of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965
10/27/2020
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Views on the proposed action of the Civil Aeronautics Board dated November 5, 1965, in Caledonian Airways Temporary Inclusive Tour Authority Investigation (Docket 16546)
10/27/2020
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Government Action with Respect to Aluminum Price Increases
10/27/2020
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Effect of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act on and after November 9, 1965.
10/27/2020
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Reform of the Electoral College
10/27/2020
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Authority of the President with respect to the effective date of the establishment of the Department of Housing and Urban Development
10/27/2020
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Consequences of non‐designation of officers of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
10/27/2020
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Appointment and designation of officers of the Department of Housing and Urban Development
10/27/2020
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Availability of Appropriated Funds for a "Get out the Vote" Campaign.
10/27/2020
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Filing of financial statements by employees.
10/27/2020