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• 9/10/1962

  Federally Supervised Lending Institutions and Racial Discrimination

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• 8/30/1962

  Authority Under International Law to Take Action If the Soviet Union Establishes Missile Bases in Cuba

  In the event that missile bases should be established in Cuba by the Soviet Union, international law would permit use by the United States of relatively extreme measures, including various forms and degree of force, for the purpose of terminating or preventing the realization of such a threat to the peace and security of the western hemisphere. An obligation would exist to have recourse first, if time should permit, to the procedures of collective security organizations of which the United States is a member. The United States would be obliged to confine any use of force to the least necessary to the end proposed. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/20791/download.

  8/30/1962

• 7/20/1962

  Applicability of the False Statements Act to Statements Made to Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

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• 5/16/1962

  Authority to print posters and fliers designed to encourage voting

  5/16/2022

• 2/27/1962

  Liability of President or Mrs. Kennedy to Prosecution for Leaving the Scene of an Automobile Accident

  5/16/2022

• 2/26/1962

  Authority of Congress to Regulate Wiretapping by the States

  Congress has authority under the Commerce Clause to regulate state wiretapping practices by prescribing a rule of evidence in state courts, limiting the authority of state officials to tap wires and to disclose and use information thereby obtained, prescribing the grounds and findings on which a state court may issue wiretap orders, and directing state courts to file reports with federal officials. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/20786/download.

  2/26/1962

• 2/19/1962

  Authority of United States Marshals to Protect Witnesses Appearing Before the Civil Rights Commission and its State Advisory Committees

  This opinion advised J. Edgar Hoover, then the director of the FBI, that United States marshals could protect witnesses from actual or threatened force when they appear before civil rights commissions, because those witnesses enjoy constitutional rights to testify before state committees. The memo suggested, however, that the federal government should avoid involvement if the FBI believes that state and local law enforcement would provide adequate protection.

  5/16/2022

• 10/10/1961

  Lobbying by Executive Branch Personnel

  Title 18, section 1913 of the U.S. Code does not bar conversations which a Peace Corps employee had with certain members of Congress at the direction of the Director of the Peace Corps in an attempt to enlist their support for a bill to establish the Peace Corps on a statutory basis. A literal interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 1913, which would prevent the President or his subordinates from formally or informally presenting his or his administration's views to the Congress, its members, or its committees regarding the need for new legislation or the wisdom of existing legislation, or which would prevent the administration from assisting in the drafting of legislation, would raise serious doubts as to the constitutionality of that statute. As so interpreted, it would seriously inhibit the exercise of what is now regarded as a basic constitutional function of the President concerning the legislative process. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/20781/download.

  10/10/1961

• 8/30/1961

  Use of Executive Authority to Deny Federal Funds to Institutions of Higher Learning Which Discriminate Among Applicants for Admission

  This opinion concluded that the executive branch could withhold funding from segregated colleges and universities, and suggested that in some cases the Fourteenth Amendment might require the withholding of funds.

  5/16/2022

• 7/18/1961

  Executive Powers Available By Virtue Of The National Emergency Proclaimed on December 16, 1950

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