Zachary Wolf: “To find a historical precedent for the voiding of a pardon, you have to go back to a post-Revolution case in Virginia that featured three men convicted of treason for joining the British. Their pardons, issued by the Virginia House of Delegates, were ultimately voided because the Virginia Senate had not concurred, as required by the state’s constitution at the time.”
“Granted, all of this occurred before the US Constitution — much less a president’s pardon power, which was inspired by the British kings — had even been established.”


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