WASHINGTON, June 12 -- Donald Trump and his allies are quietly working to have the House of Representatives declare his two impeachments erased, a resolution that legal scholars say would accomplish nothing the Constitution permits, and which the president's own party intends to pass only after November, in the narrow window between an expected election defeat and the surrender of its majority.

The vehicle is House Resolution 1211, introduced by Representative Darrell Issa of California, which would expunge both impeachments as if such Articles had never passed the chamber, US News reported, citing The Wall Street Journal. The measure has the backing of Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and more than 20 cosponsors since April, and ...