Republican allies in Congress are pushing to expunge the former president's two impeachments, but legal scholars are wary of the strategy — and so are some moderate House Republicans, who could kill the measure should it come up for a vote.
"There’s no deal," McCarthy told reporters. "But I’ve been very clear, from long before, when I voted against impeachments, that they did it for purely political purposes.The goal of the resolutions introduced by Greene and Stefanik is to make it "as if such Articles of Impeachment had never passed the full House of Representatives.
"There's no provision in the Constitution for undoing an impeachment," Super said. "There's also no legal effect of an impeachment that doesn't result in a conviction, so there's nothing for the House to cancel." The impeachment process is clearly laid out in the U.S. Constitution, and it does not include any procedure for undoing an impeachment after the House has voted. Super pointed out the country's founders did spell out how certain actions can be reversed, including impeaching someone who had been appointed or elected.
"The Constitution does not provide any legal effect for an impeachment except that it authorizes a trial of conviction in the Senate," Super later added. "There were two impeachments, neither resulted in a conviction in the Senate and it has no legal effect. You can't undo something that has no effect in the first place and it would be very strange if the framers saw any reason to do that.
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