Reading Room Document

Presidential Authority to Act in the Case of Eddie Slovik

Presidential Authority—Slovik Case—Constitutional Law—Posthumous Pardons—Review of Sentence (10 U.S.C. § 1552) The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/21356/download.

September 9, 1977