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I think that's why they included the "fuck you, official act" part.
The president's "official act" would be issuing the pardon. The referenced Supreme Court decision just means it would not be a "crime" for the president to issue said pardon, not that the pardon would stand.
That's true, so I guess it would need to be having the military intervene to extract him, so that you don't need to worry about what a state court says.
The official act could be to use the national guard to rescue a US citizen from wrongful imprisonment, but that's the kind of thing that racist Republicans would start a civil war over in the name of "states' rights".