well, it should be expunged being it was the absolute stupidist reason to impeach. OTOH, the timing is suspicious in that it changes the narrative over the weekend from Biden docs back to Trump. At the least McCarthy could have waited until Monday or Tuesday so the Biden docs could simmer a while
You’re exactly right. Plus they need to do it early and often. Get it done and move on fast. Let them lament all they want. Let mainstream cover it all they want. Opine away.
The expungement of Trump’s impeachments should be done in a deliberate, well-considered manner that is grounded in both the particulars as to Trump AND as a rejection of the summary, contrived process that the Democratic House adopted as to Trump. In effect, the GOP House should articulate a standard for impeachment and solicit Democratic buy-in. The result would be to make any impeachment of Biden and later Presidents harder and more deliberate, with the expungement of Trump’s impeachments then following logically from that premise.
Great idea!
What is the judicial parallel? Can a person's indictment be expunged after a trial finds him not guilty? That would result in the existence of a trial without a predicate indictment of charges. Is that allowed in our legal system?
I can possibly see it in the situation where a trial is dismissed by the judge for lack of evidence, and then the person moves to have the indictment expunged, but not after a full trial and finding of not guilty.
If an indictment is expunged after a trial finding of not guilty, can the person be charged again? How would double-jeopardy apply in the case where there is a trial but no underlying charges?
Back to impeachment, if an impeachment is expunged after a trial in the Senate, can the person be impeached again as if the first impeachment never happened? What about the prior trial on the now non-existent impeachment?
I don't think this would be found to be Constitutional if it were brought to the Supreme Court. There are just too many unresolved questions to think that the Framers intended an act like this to happen.
-PJ
Yeah it wouldn’t make a lick of difference to anyone either way
More than anything I want to see a massive investigation into the coup attempt that used the Russia collusion hoax. What was the FBI, James Comeys role in the coup attempt? When did Pelosi, Schiff, Schumer etc etc know Russia collusion was a hoax and why did they continue? Why did they allow Robert Mueller to hold a fake investigation when they knew it was a hoax? When is Hillary being held accountable?
They’ve got less than two years to get stuff done and THIS is their choice of pursuit?!
FAIL
... just another bit of kabuki that will die in the Senate. The only bills created by the House that will get thru the Senate are spending, spending, spending. Anything else is rancid meat for the masses.
Why can’t they? The federal government does all kinds of things it is not supposed to do per the constitution.
Better....... bang bang bang. Dead squirrel
Expungement sweeps it all under the rug. The impeachments are an historic reminder of despicable democrat malfeasance. I say let them linger for eternity.
Now, that would be unusual.
do that AND release all 14,000 hours of video from January 6th on the same day.
Well they can “expunge” it in the same way the NCAA “expunges” victories. They can take it out of the “official record” but it will still be in the history books. Kind of like Reggie Bush’s Heisman, officially he’s no longer a winner, but he still has the trophy.
What....??? The same guys who stood around with their fingers up their a#@es, WHILE Liberals ran that game on Trump??
Maybe their ultimate goal is to use this as a ‘pilot’ project. If it works, then they will get their OWN actual crimes ‘expunged’!!
You definitely need the Memory Hole to make this work. Unfortunately, the FBI and CIA own all the Memory Holes, so that option is off the table.
Lacking a good Memory Hole, you could use the little “Memory Eraser” that Tommy Lee Jones put to good use. But how to deploy it to 81 million people?
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Put Pelosi’s Kangaroo Courts where they belong.
It should stand for all of history to see.
Will show how the traitors worked to unseat a President.
Any way they could.