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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Inquiry from U.S. Attorney, District of Oregon, with reference to Bar Association Proceedings.
10/27/2020
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Delegation to the Secretary of the Interior of the President's Authority under Section 232(b) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1862(b)).
10/27/2020
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Constitutional or statutory authority of the President to make available to the widow of the Reverend Mr. Reeb an Air Force airplane to transport her from Birmingham to Boston.
10/27/2020
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Does a single incident involving the transportation of a narcotic drug (heroin) as part of an unlawful scheme to resell it for gain make the carrier an illicit trafficker within the meaning of Section 212(a)(23) of the Immigration and Nationality Act?
10/27/2020
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Whether the Administrator of General Services has the authority to utilize State and local law‐enforcement personnel to enforce federal law
10/27/2020
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Attached letter to Department of State, construing Section 212(a)(23) of the Immigration and Nationality Act
10/27/2020
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Publication of photographs taken by Yoichi Okamoto.
10/27/2020
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Hearings with respect to matters related to defense contracts
10/27/2020
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Application of James D. Hill for permission to appear before the Office of Alien Property in claims of Janis Zalcmanis et al.
10/27/2020
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Request by HHFA for an opinion on security of certain loan notes issued under Public Housing and Urban Renewal programs.
10/27/2020