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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Authority to use federal troops to assist in the protection of foreign embassies in the District of Columbia
10/27/2020
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Assistance to Civil Authorities in the Washington Metropolitan Area
10/27/2020
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Statutory authority to use federal troops to assist in the protection of the President
10/27/2020
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Legal authority for consumer credit controls
10/27/2020
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Department of Transportation Title VI Regulation
7/27/2020
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Use by private organization of initials "LEAA"
7/27/2020
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Christmas Gift for the President
10/27/2020
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Funding of the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health.
10/27/2020
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Whether section 3(a) of Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1969 is in harmony with section 5(a)(4) of the Reorganization Act of 1949, 63 Stat. 205, 5 U.S.C. § 905(a)(4)
7/27/2020
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Public advisory boards which report to the Department of Justice and interagency committees chaired by the Department which have been discontinued since January 20, 1969.
10/27/2020