Ex parte Garland
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Ex parte Garland is an 1867 U.S. Supreme Court decision that limited Congress’s power to impose loyalty oaths and affirmed presidential pardon authority in the post–Civil War era.
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| Ex parte Garland canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ex parte Garland Context triple: [Chase Court, notableCase, Ex parte Garland]
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Ex parte McCardle
Ex parte McCardle is an 1869 U.S. Supreme Court case best known for affirming Congress’s power to limit the Court’s appellate jurisdiction under Article III of the Constitution.
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Ex parte Young
Ex parte Young is a landmark 1908 U.S. Supreme Court decision that created a legal fiction allowing suits in federal court against state officials to stop ongoing violations of federal law, despite state sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment.
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Ex parte Siebold
Ex parte Siebold is an 1879 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld federal authority to regulate and enforce laws governing federal elections, affirming broad congressional power over the electoral process.
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Gebhart v. Belton
Gebhart v. Belton was a landmark Delaware school segregation case whose rulings in favor of Black students became one of the four consolidated cases decided in Brown v. Board of Education, contributing to the Supreme Court’s rejection of “separate but equal” in public education.
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E.
Bolling v. Sharpe
Bolling v. Sharpe is a 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case that held racial segregation in Washington, D.C. public schools unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ex parte Garland Target entity description: Ex parte Garland is an 1867 U.S. Supreme Court decision that limited Congress’s power to impose loyalty oaths and affirmed presidential pardon authority in the post–Civil War era.
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A.
Ex parte McCardle
Ex parte McCardle is an 1869 U.S. Supreme Court case best known for affirming Congress’s power to limit the Court’s appellate jurisdiction under Article III of the Constitution.
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B.
Ex parte Young
Ex parte Young is a landmark 1908 U.S. Supreme Court decision that created a legal fiction allowing suits in federal court against state officials to stop ongoing violations of federal law, despite state sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment.
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C.
Ex parte Siebold
Ex parte Siebold is an 1879 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld federal authority to regulate and enforce laws governing federal elections, affirming broad congressional power over the electoral process.
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D.
Gebhart v. Belton
Gebhart v. Belton was a landmark Delaware school segregation case whose rulings in favor of Black students became one of the four consolidated cases decided in Brown v. Board of Education, contributing to the Supreme Court’s rejection of “separate but equal” in public education.
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E.
Bolling v. Sharpe
Bolling v. Sharpe is a 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case that held racial segregation in Washington, D.C. public schools unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Reconstruction-era case
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United States Supreme Court case ⓘ legal case ⓘ |
| areaOfLaw |
constitutional law
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professional responsibility law ⓘ separation of powers law ⓘ |
| citation |
4 Wall. 333
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71 U.S. 333 ⓘ |
| constitutionalConcept |
limits on legislative punishment
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scope of presidential pardon power ⓘ separation of powers ⓘ |
| constitutionalProvisionInterpreted |
Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution
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Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution NERFINISHED ⓘ Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| court | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| decisionDate | 1867-01-14 ⓘ |
| dissentingJustice |
Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase
NERFINISHED
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Justice Noah H. Swayne NERFINISHED ⓘ Justice Samuel F. Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ Justice Samuel Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| effect |
limited Congress’s power to impose loyalty oaths
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protected former Confederates who had received presidential pardons ⓘ strengthened presidential authority over pardons ⓘ |
| historicalContext | post–Civil War loyalty measures ⓘ |
| holding |
Congress cannot impose a loyalty oath that operates as a bill of attainder or ex post facto law
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a full presidential pardon restores the right to practice law in federal courts ⓘ a presidential pardon removes penalties and disabilities attached to the offense pardoned ⓘ the test oath requirement for attorneys was unconstitutional as applied to Garland ⓘ |
| issue | constitutionality of congressional loyalty oath for attorneys ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | United States federal jurisdiction ⓘ |
| legalPrinciple | pardon blots out the offense and its penalties ⓘ |
| majorityOpinionBy | Justice Stephen J. Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pardonRecipient | Augustus Hill Garland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pardonType | full presidential pardon ⓘ |
| partyInvolved |
President Andrew Johnson
NERFINISHED
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United States Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| petitioner | Augustus Hill Garland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| petitionerOccupation | lawyer ⓘ |
| petitionerRole | former Confederate senator ⓘ |
| relatedLegislation | 1865 congressional test oath for attorneys ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
American Civil War
NERFINISHED
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Reconstruction ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
attorney admission to practice
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bills of attainder ⓘ ex post facto laws ⓘ loyalty oaths ⓘ presidential pardon power ⓘ |
| term | 1866 term ⓘ |
| vote | 5-4 ⓘ |
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Subject: Ex parte Garland Description of subject: Ex parte Garland is an 1867 U.S. Supreme Court decision that limited Congress’s power to impose loyalty oaths and affirmed presidential pardon authority in the post–Civil War era.
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