House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he’d take a “look at” attempting to expunge former President Donald Trump’s double impeachments. The Washington Post noted that Republicans in the last Congress floated resolutions to expunge, or erase, the impeachments but they never got anywhere. After the violence, McCarthy declared on the floor of the House that the “president bears responsibility for [the] attack on Congress by mob rioters. AdvertisementNoah Bookbinder, president of watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, wrote in a tweet that it’s “outrageous that Speaker McCarthy would consider expunging Donald Trump’s impeachments. Congress should have barred him from office.”Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis mocked McCarthy’s position, tweeting: “Not sure that’s how it works.”

Source: Huffington Post January 14, 2023 11:35 UTC