Scope: Federal
Branch: Legislative
Severity: Amber
Date occurred: January 9, 2025
House Resolution 24 of the 119th Congress would expunge the December 18, 2019 impeachment of President Donald John Trump. The resolution was introduced in the House and referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary on January 9, 2025.
Constitutional basis: Asserts a power to expunge an impeachment, a mechanism absent from Article I's impeachment text and never exercised; resolution remains in committee.