Editing Starr Report (section)

===Partial retraction===

In January 2020, while testifying as a defense lawyer for U.S. President [[Donald Trump]] during [[First impeachment trial of Donald Trump|his Senate impeachment trial]], Starr himself would retract some of the allegations he made in the report.<ref name=starrretracts>{{cite news|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/clinton-independent-counsel-ken-starr-argues-against-impeachment.html|title=Ken Starr Argues There Are Too Many Impeachments These Days|first=Jeremy|last=Stahl|publisher=Slate|date=January 27, 2020|access-date=October 29, 2020}}</ref> ''Slate'' journalist Jeremy Stahl pointed out that as he was urging the Senate not to remove Trump as president, Starr contradicted various arguments he used in 1998 to justify Clinton's impeachment.<ref name=starrretracts /> In defending Trump, Starr also claimed he was wrong to have called for impeachment against Clinton for abuse of executive privilege and efforts to obstruct Congress and also stated that the House Judiciary Committee was right in 1998 to have rejected one of the planks for impeachment he had advocated for.<ref name=starrretracts /> He also invoked a 1999 Hofstra Law Review article by Yale law professor [[Akhil Amar]], who argued that the Clinton impeachment proved just how impeachment and removal causes "grave disruption" to a national election.<ref name=starrretracts />