Obama ordered the closure of Guantánamo and the CIA secret detention sites abroad.
But in September 2014, the supreme court ordered the closure of Holot within 90 days.
President Barack Obama ordered the closure of the secret prisons, or black sites, in 2009.
The US also ordered the closure of the Russian consulate in Seattle.
In January the state ordered the closure of the Tryon boys' facility in upstate Fulton County.
At the same time, Russia ordered the closure of a political office that Syria's Kurds had established in Moscow.
It is believed this was the first time the government had ordered the closure of a website in the country.
More than two years after President Obama ordered the closure of the prison, 172 are still held there.
Louis XVI long ago ordered the closure of a church, Les Innocents, and its pestilential, overflowing cemetery.
In a strange twist, the Russian Embassy tweeted, "US administration ordered the closure of the Russian Consulate in Seattle @GK_Seattle.
His powers are not limitless, though, as Obama found when he ordered the closure of Guantánamo Bay.
