{"identifier":"/us/usc/t28/s511","title_num":"28","num":"§ 511.","heading":"Attorney General to advise the President","status":null,"guid":"id5261df4a-3a70-11f1-9e0c-dcbb1364dae6","source_credit":"(Added Pub. L. 89–554, § 4(c), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 612.)","seq_in_title":185,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t28/ptII/ch31","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t28","level":"title","num":"Title 28—","heading":"JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t28/ptII","level":"part","num":"PART II—","heading":"DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t28/ptII/ch31","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 31—","heading":"THE ATTORNEY GENERAL","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id29cc4ddc-56ae-11e3-a050-c6d294ef27da\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t28/s511\"><num value=\"511\">§ 511.</num><heading> Attorney General to advise the President</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">The Attorney General shall give his advice and opinion on questions of law when required by the President.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id29cc4ddd-56ae-11e3-a050-c6d294ef27da\">(Added <ref href=\"/us/pl/89/554/s4/c\">Pub. L. 89–554, § 4(c)</ref>, <date date=\"1966-09-06\">Sept. 6, 1966</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/80/612\">80 Stat. 612</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id29cc4dde-56ae-11e3-a050-c6d294ef27da\">\n<note topic=\"historicalAndRevision\" id=\"id29cc4ddf-56ae-11e3-a050-c6d294ef27da\">\n<table xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\" class=\"HNR\" width=\"50%\" style=\"border-collapse:collapse;  border-bottom:1px solid black; -uslm-lc: c3,L2,tp7,xs42,xls54,r50,tp7,xs42,xls54,r50; \">\n<colgroup>\n<col style=\"width:46pt ; max-width:46pt;\"/>\n<col style=\"width:58pt ; max-width:58pt;\"/>\n<col style=\"min-width: 102pt;\"/>\n</colgroup>\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"title\" style=\"font-size:7pt; border-bottom:1px solid black; -uslm-lc:I95;\">\n<th colspan=\"3\">\n<p style=\"\"><span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">Historical and Revision Notes</span></p></th>\n</tr>\n<tr class=\"header\" style=\"font-size:6pt; border-bottom:1px solid black;  border-top:1px solid black; -uslm-lc:h1;\">\n<th style=\"width:46.0pt ; max-width:46.0pt; text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; border-right:1px solid black;\"><p style=\" text-align:center;\"><i>Derivation</i></p></th><th style=\"width:58.0pt ; max-width:58.0pt; text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;\"><p style=\" text-align:center;\"><i>U.S. Code</i></p></th><th style=\"min-width: 102.0pt; text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; border-left:1px solid black;\"><p style=\" text-align:center; margin-bottom:0em;\"><i>Revised Statutes and</i></p><p style=\" text-align:center; margin-top:0em;\"><i>Statutes at Large</i></p></th></tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody style=\"line-height:7pt; font-size:6pt;\">\n<tr style=\"border-top:1px solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;\"><td style=\" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; padding-right:2pt;\"><p style=\" text-align:left; text-indent: -1em; padding-left:1em;\" class=\"leaders\"><span> </span></p></td><td style=\" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black; padding-right:2pt; padding-left: 2pt;\"><p style=\" text-align:left; text-indent: -1em; padding-left:1em;\"><a href=\"/us/usc/t5/s303\">5 U.S.C. 303</a>.</p></td><td style=\" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black; padding-left: 2pt;\"><p style=\" text-align:left; text-indent: -1em; padding-left:1em;\">R.S. § 354.</p></td></tr>\n<tr style=\"-uslm-lc:I22;\"><td style=\" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; padding-right:2pt;\"><p style=\" text-align:left; text-indent: -1em; padding-left:1em;\"> </p></td><td style=\" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black; padding-right:2pt; padding-left: 2pt;\"><p style=\" text-align:left; text-indent: -1em; padding-left:1em;\"> </p></td><td style=\" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black; padding-left: 2pt;\"><p style=\" text-align:left; text-indent: -1em; padding-left:1em;\"><a href=\"/us/act/1877-02-27/ch69/s1\">Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, § 1</a> (8th full par. on p. 241), <a href=\"/us/stat/19/241\">19 Stat. 241</a>.</p></td></tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"119-83","currency_date":"2026-04-13","congress":119,"law_num":83,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":371,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["01","02","05","06","07","08","10","11","12","15","16","18","19","20","21","22","23","26","28","29","30","31","33","34","36","38","40","41","42","43","48","49","50","51","54"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"119-83","currency_date":"2026-04-13","congress":119,"law_num":83,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":371,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["01","02","05","06","07","08","10","11","12","15","16","18","19","20","21","22","23","26","28","29","30","31","33","34","36","38","40","41","42","43","48","49","50","51","54"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"113-52","currency_date":"2013-11-21","congress":113,"law_num":52,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":8,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","27","28","29","30","31","32","38","40","42","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}