Editing Ken Starr (section)

=== Donald Trump impeachment trial ===
On January 16, 2020, Starr was announced as a member of then-President [[Donald Trump]]'s legal team for his [[First impeachment trial of Donald Trump|Senate impeachment trial]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/17/ken-starr-alan-dershowitz-trump-impeachment-legal-team|title=Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr join Trump impeachment legal team|last=McCarthy|first=Tom|date=January 17, 2020|work=The Guardian|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=January 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200117175031/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/17/ken-starr-alan-dershowitz-trump-impeachment-legal-team|url-status=live}}</ref> He argued before the Senate on Trump's behalf on January 27, 2020.<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=January 27, 2020|archive-date=January 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127221006/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/clinton-independent-counsel-ken-starr-argues-against-impeachment.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Slate (magazine)|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 />
Starr was called as a witness by Sen. [[Ron Johnson]] on a senate hearing concerning [[electoral fraud]] amidst Trump's [[attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/technology/the-election-is-over-but-ron-johnson-keeps-promoting-false-claims-of-fraud.html|title=The election is over, but Ron Johnson keeps promoting false claims of fraud|first=Linda|last=Qiu|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 16, 2020|access-date=February 25, 2021|archive-date=January 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210101110135/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/technology/the-election-is-over-but-ron-johnson-keeps-promoting-false-claims-of-fraud.html|url-status=live}}</ref> When Trump was impeached for a second time in 2021, Starr condemned the impeachment as "dangerous" and "unconstitutional".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ken-starr-trumps-second-impeachment-unconstitutional-process|title=Ken Starr says Trump's second impeachment 'unconstitutional' and sets 'dangerous precedent'|first=Roman|last=Chiarello|publisher=Fox News|date=February 10, 2021|access-date=February 25, 2021|archive-date=February 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223171919/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ken-starr-trumps-second-impeachment-unconstitutional-process|url-status=live}}</ref>