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 arrangement John N. Irwin II has made with his law firm, Patterson, Belknap & Webb, to continue in private law practice to the extent permitted by his duties as Special Representative of the United States for Interoceanic Canal Negotiations.
10/27/2020
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Agreement on Civil Emergency Planning Between the United States and Canada effected by the exchange of notes
10/27/2020
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Constitutionality of attempt by Congress to prohibit an officer in the Executive branch from continuing to hold one of two offices to which he was appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
10/27/2020
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Transferability of Federal Judges to the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions.
10/27/2020
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Provisions requiring state agencies administering federal grant‐in‐aid programs to have merit personnel programs.
10/27/2020
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28 CFR Subpart V‐‐Authorizations with Respect to Personnel and Certain Administrative Matters
10/27/2020
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Power of Congress to prohibit display of Confederate flag.
10/27/2020
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Response to your letter of May 18, 1965, with regard to the contract which your Agency proposes to enter into with Donohue, Kaufmann and Shaw.
10/27/2020
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Applicability to parolees of Section 504(a) of the Labor‐Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959
10/27/2020
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Suggestion that the President issue an executive order requiring in substance that every contract, grant, or other financial arrangement entered into by the Federal Government contain an undertaking by the other party not to engage in discrimination
10/27/2020