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Stevenson’s army, January 11

No 25th amendment removal: Pence doesn’t want it and those still in the cabinet are loyalists. Failed impeachment: House Democrats have the votes to impeach; I don’t see 17 GOP Senators voting to convict. Possible censure: toothless punishment, so most likely. Meanwhile, activists plan disruptions Jan 17 and 20.

Jim Fallows makes the case for punishment.
Meanwhile SecState Pompeo plants some landmines: designating Houthi as terrorists and dropping restrictions on dealing with Taiwan.

Biden will name Bill Burns as CIA Direector.
And don’t forget the 1997 law that lets Congress repeal late stage regulations.

My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I plan to republish here. To get Stevenson’s army by email, send a blank email (no subject or text in the body) to stevensons-army+subscribe@googlegroups.com. You’ll get an email confirming your join request. Click “Join This Group” and follow the instructions to join. Once you have joined, you can adjust your email delivery preferences (if you want every email or a digest of the emails).

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