Title 2 — The CongressRelease 119-73
§137 Use and regulation of law library
Title 2 › Chapter CHAPTER 5— - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS › § 137
Summary
Supreme Court justices have free law-library access and may set rules for its use during sittings, but those rules cannot stop authorized borrowers from accessing or using law-library books the same way they use general-library books.
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Title 2, §137
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The justices of the Supreme Court shall have free access to the law library; and they are authorized to make regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the use of the same during the sittings of the court. But such regulations shall not restrict any person authorized to take books from the Library from having access to the law library, or using the books therein in the same manner as he may be entitled to use the books of the general Library.
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Codification R.S. § 95 derived from act July 14, 1832, ch. 221, § 2, 4 Stat. 579.
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2 U.S.C. § 137
Title 2 — The Congress
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73