The Angle

The Angle: First Draft Edition

Slate’s daily newsletter on H.R. McMaster’s downfall, Comey’s FBI, and articles of impeachment for the president.

Impeached. 

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What it might look like: Phillip Carter has drafted up a series of articles of impeachment for the president. Article One: Emoluments. Article Two: Russia. And onward.

Downfall: H.R. McMaster, “a public servant who has been all but incapable of guile throughout his career,” is being sucked down into the Trump quicksand, Fred Kaplan writes. And that’s a real shame.

Not going to work: Justice Department lawyers defending the revised Trump travel ban in front of the 9th Circuit are having a very hard time getting the judges to disregard the many anti-Muslim statements the president made during his campaign, Dahlia Lithwick reports.

Comey’s legacy: Under James Comey, the FBI logged one “major technological triumph,” Josephine Wolff writes, followed by a series of misjudgments that undermined its reputation for technical acumen.

For fun: What’s up with all the odd new BuzzFeed quizzes?

I’m 5’9”—really,

Rebecca