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).
The Knight Institute will continue updating the reading room with new records. To get alerts when the OLC publishes a new opinion in its database, follow @OLCforthepeople on Twitter.
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Statement describing in general terms the powers and functions of the Comptroller General and the General Accounting Office.
10/27/2020
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Carl H. Buck ‐‐ Pardon Matter.
10/27/2020
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Request of your predecessor that I review and reconsider the principles involved in several instances of unfavorable advice rendered by the Antitrust Division of this Department pursuant to § 207 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of
10/27/2020
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Appointment of Comptroller General
10/27/2020
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Application of § 401 of Executive Order No. 11222 to the Tax Court and other Article I Courts.
10/27/2020
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S.J. Res. I ‐‐ Presidential Inability and Vacancies in the Office of the Vice President
10/27/2020
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With regard to enrollees in Title I‐B and Title I‐C projects who are working in Federal programs or agencies.
10/27/2020
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Issuance of a commission to Aileen C. Hernandez
10/27/2020
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Pay scale of members of the United States Board of Parole
10/27/2020
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Establishment of a new "Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents" as a special edition of the Federal Register
10/27/2020