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Newspapers were not above making stuff up in those days.

If his decisions were any indication, Chase believed that Davis had always been a citizen of the US.

However, he may have believed that being stripped of his right to vote by the 14th Amendment may have constituted a punishment to Davis and that further punishment would be double jeopardy. That's one theory.

Political considerations, though, were probably the most important reason why the case didn't go forward.

[central_va]

The court finally heard preliminary motions in December 1868, when the defense asked for a dismissal claiming that the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution already punished Davis by preventing him from holding public office in the future and that further prosecution and punishment would violate the double jeopardy restriction of the Fifth Amendment. The court divided in its official opinion and certified the question to the United States Supreme Court. Fearing the court would rule in favor of Davis, Johnson released an amnesty proclamation on December 25, 1868, issuing a pardon to all persons who had participated in the rebellion.

Read more here.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Here is more from a different source. NOT the Salmon P Chase source.

http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/jefferson_davis_s_imprisonment#start_entry

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Another source.

https://teanewyork.wordpress.com/2015/07/26/the-post-war-jefferson-davis-the-famous-trial-that-never-was/

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Jefferson_Davis

[Lazamataz]

Newspapers were not above making stuff up in those days.

You say that as if things changed.