“You can’t retroactively revoke a Congressional Medal of Honor— never has been done”
Yes you can and it has been done. A government review panel in 1916 revoked 911 Medals of Honor as far back as the Civil War.
An example of some of medals revoked. Every man in a Union infantry regiment that re-enlisted in 1863 was awarded the Medal of Honor. Hardly meets the criteria for the award.
True the Commission at the time recognized how ridiculous it was to dilute the value of what is a medal of Valor and sacrifice. Simply re-enlisting was certainly not that. Good that a review panel revoked them and others. Procedure through the War Department. The Sickles one stayed however— as idiotic as it was awarded 34 years after 1863— guy was a complete SOB and a@@hole. Seen his legbone at the Museum in DC == guy was a real self promoter. Compared to legitimate heroism, add.... even when not.