Letter
to the Editor
February
6, 2020
RE: Steve Nelson, Republicans planning
to expunge Trump impeachment if they win back the House, New York Post (Feb. 5, 2020, 12:34 PM), <https://tinyurl.com/rsk2vx2>.
Your
article states: “Backers of the notion point to the House voting in 1837 to
expunge a censure of President Andrew Jackson.” That’s not quite right. What
happened was that the Senate censured Jackson in 1834. Afterwards, in 1837, a
successor Senate expunged from the Senate’s journal the entry for the censure.
The House was not involved—nor was the impeachment process.
Sincerely,
Seth
Barrett Tillman
Seth Barrett Tillman, The 1837 Senate Expunging Resolution, New Reform Club (Feb. 6, 2020, 2:02 PM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-1837-senate-expunging-resolution.html>.
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