GOP Bloc Likely To Scuttle Expunging Impeachments

Politico reports:

Kevin McCarthy denies he made any deal with Donald Trump to expunge his impeachment record. Even if the speaker did call for such a vote, a bloc of House GOP centrists would likely defeat it. “What is there to expunge? He was acquitted at trial. I don’t really see the purpose of it,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) told reporters. Asked whether he’d support it, he scoffed: “We’ll see if it even comes to the floor.”

“Probably not,” added Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) in an interview, when asked whether he’d vote for such a measure. “In regards to both? What? Weren’t there multiple?”

One House  Republican, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations, described personally urging leadership not to bring it to the floor for a vote. “That’d kill me,” the GOP lawmaker said of the political implications. Besides that, the lawmaker described it as a legally dubious tactic: “He was found not guilty. What are we expunging? How do you take a public thing and expunge? It’s not a criminal record.”

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Several Republicans in hotly contested swing districts said they will join with Democrats to block Marge Greene & Elise Stefanik’s attempt to expunge Trump’s impeachments. https://t.co/0risTdoqcm

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 21, 2023