Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)

Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code
now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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## Done
- **The substrate** — repo-canonical, OKF markdown + YAML frontmatter, JSON-Schema validated, deterministic build (byte-identical on rerun).
- **Five entity types, 57,185 files** — Person (13,329), Body (233), Candidate (2,494), Jurisdiction (29,908), LegalText (11,221).
- **Five entity types, 105,704 files** — Person (13,329), Body (233), Candidate (2,494), Jurisdiction (29,908), LegalText (59,740).
- **The federal government, structurally** — every member of Congress, the chambers, 49 committees and 181 subcommittees with their leadership, and every member's committee seats.
- **The nationwide county skeleton** — all 3,131 U.S. counties as demographic nodes, plus all 435 congressional districts (Census ACS demographics on 363).
- **The authority layer** — every state legislative district (4,927 house, 1,897 senate) linked county↔district↔legislator, nationwide.
- **The municipal layer** — every incorporated place in the country (19,513 cities, towns, villages, boroughs) as a first-class Jurisdiction node keyed by Census place GEOID, modelled like a county (place + government fused). 2,229 are filled with their officeholders today (2,217 GEOID-resolved off a 98.8% name→GEOID join); the rest are truthful skeleton stubs — "governed, not yet mirrored" — waiting for depth, the same discipline as the county skeleton.
- **The legal corpus, seeded wide** — U.S. Code Titles 111 and 52 as 11,221 per-section records, mirrored from pinned OLRC XML (release 119-100) with manifests and checksums. Titles 1254 pending an OLRC XML retry (the GovInfo HTML fallback is not source-quality).
- **The complete U.S. Code** — every section of all 53 populated titles (Title 53 is reserved), 59,740 per-section records, mirrored from the official OLRC USLM XML at release point 119-100, uniform edition end to end, with manifests and checksums.
- **The 2026 federal candidate field** — every FEC filing as a Candidate.
- **Florida to the ground** — officeholders down to the municipal level across all 67 counties.
- **The pipeline** — `make build` / `validate` / `changelog` / `check`, standard-library only.
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## Next
- **Self-updating mirror** — the `make check` GitHub Action now guards every push; next is the scheduled job that pulls a fresh Atlas export, rebuilds, and commits the changelog automatically. That is the point where the mirror maintains itself and the daily civic changelog becomes real (the first *re-sync* diff, where only genuine government changes surface).
- **The full U.S. Code** — titles 1254 as OLRC USLM XML at the same release point (retry in progress on Atlas; the WAF-blocked titles currently exist only as GovInfo HTML, which stays a secondary snapshot).
- **The Code as a living diff** — the whole Code is in; the next lever is re-syncing it at each new OLRC release point so amendments surface as diffs (a new public law becomes a visible change to the affected sections), and linking sections to the offices and bodies they empower (the authority axis).
- **The demographic choropleth** — the Board already has ACS data for every county; shade the map by population, income, and poverty, turning it from a coverage indicator into an instrument.
- **Fill the municipal skeleton** — the 19,513 city nodes exist; 2,229 carry officeholders. The work now is depth: pull municipal officeholders for the next states (Texas, California, Ohio all have a spine already), each a diff against a node that's waiting. Municipal ACS demographics would enrich every city node the way ACS already enriches counties.
- **State and local bodies** — Bodies (as distinct institution files) currently exist only at the federal level. Mint them for state legislatures and, following the municipal layer, county commissions where they warrant a Body of their own.