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Ex parte Garland

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1867 United States Supreme Court case
Ex parte Garland
Argued December 15, 22, 1865
Reargued March 13–15, 1866
Decided January 14, 1867
Full case nameEx parte Garland
Citations71U.S.333 (more)
4Wall. 333; 18L. Ed. 366; 1866U.S. LEXIS 886
Holding
Congress cannot punish a person for a crime for which the person has been pardoned.
Court membership
Chief Justice
Salmon P. Chase
Associate Justices
James M. Wayne · Samuel Nelson
Robert C. Grier · Nathan Clifford
Noah H. Swayne · Samuel F. Miller
David Davis · Stephen J. Field
Case opinions
MajorityField, joined by Wayne, Nelson, Grier, Clifford
DissentMiller, joined by Chase, Swayne, Davis

Ex parte Garland, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 333 (1867), was an importantUnited States Supreme Court case involving the disbarment of formerConfederate officials.

Background

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In January 1865, theUS Congress passed a law that effectively disbarred former members of the Confederate government by requiring aloyalty oath to be recited by any federal court officer that affirmed that the officer had never served in the Confederate government.

Augustus Hill Garland, an attorney and a former Confederate Senator fromArkansas, subsequently received a pardon from US PresidentAndrew Johnson. Garland then came before the court and pleaded that the act of Congress was abill of attainder and anex post facto law, which unfairly punished him for the crime for which he had been pardoned, and so was unconstitutional.

Decision

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In a 5–4 decision, the Supreme Court held that the law was both abill of attainder and anex post facto law, both forbidden byArticle I, Section 9 of the Constitution. The court also ruled that the president can exercise the pardon power at any time after the commission of the crime, and that Garland was beyond the reach of punishment of any kind because of his prior presidential pardon.[1]

The court also stated that counselors are officers of the court, not officers of the United States, and that their removal was an exercise of judicial power, not legislative power. The law was struck down as unconstitutional, which opened the way for former Confederate government officials to return to positions in the federal judiciary.

Notes

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  1. ^On limitations to the president's pardon power, see:Broughton, Zachary J. (2019)."I Beg Your Pardon: Ex Parte Garland Overruled; The Presidential Pardon Is No Longer Unlimited".Western New England Law Review.41 (183):183–218. RetrievedDecember 4, 2020.

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