German Lopez
Former Senior Correspondent and Cohost of The Weeds
Latest articles by German Lopez
From Canada to Michigan to California, marijuana legalization had a very big year.
A government shutdown for the holidays; an election postponed in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Trump is already flip-flopping on who owns a government shutdown.
The law won’t legalize marijuana for recreational or medical uses, but allows non-intoxicating forms of cannabis.
The First Step Act adopts significant, but modest, criminal justice reforms.
One first step for Congress, one tiny step for criminal justice reform.
Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s sentencing is postponed; the Trump administration’s bump stock ban is final.
Pacific Life, a life insurance company, pulled out after Carlson’s latest anti-immigration rant. Now other companies have followed suit.
More than a year after the Las Vegas mass shooting, bump stocks are officially set to become illegal.
A new report from the Brennan Center for Justice has good news.