President Donald Trump and his allies are reportedly working to expunge his two impeachments from the congressional record, a move constitutional experts say Congress has no power to make.
Congress Has No Such Power
The effort would have little legal significance, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources.
According to the report, Michael Gerhardt, a law professor at the University of North Carolina, called it “an absurd idea.” “Nobody thought that Congress had this power, because Congress doesn’t have this power,” he said.
This contradicts Trump’s position. In a phone call with the Journal, the president said, “It should be done because I did nothing wrong. It was a rigged deal — it was a whole rigged situation.”
