Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy doesn't think Trump's impeachment should 'stay on the books.'
WASHINGTON — As the Senate is set to vote Wednesday on the removal from office of President Trump — with acquittal all but assured — Republicans are already plotting to expunge the impeachment if they retake the House.
If McCarthy does take the gavel from Pelosi in January 2021, he will hold immense power to pass legislation — and a vote on expungement almost certainly would yield party-line support. “There’s still an 18th transcript that was never released about the inspector general. It’s interesting to know, in there, there was 179 pages, did Adam Schiff know the whistleblower? Did he meet with the whistleblower? I think a lot of questions are raised about whether that individual, Adam Schiff, was a fact witness.”
Backers of the notion point to the House voting in 1837 to expunge a censure of President Andrew Jackson, though some legal experts believe expungement would be only symbolic. Rep. Jim Jordan, a Republican from Ohio, said “the president should have never been impeached in the first place” and that expungement is “a good idea.”
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