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The killer of Nipsey Hussle, Eric Holder got convicted on Wednesday, July 6, and was found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2019 shooting of the rapper at the rapper's Crenshaw District store called The Marathon. The Los Angeles County jury also found the 32-year-old guilty of two counts of attempted voluntary manslaughter instead of two attempted murder counts as prosecutors had sought for two other men who were hit by gunfire at the scene. Post the news broke out of his conviction, netizens took to Twitter to share their joy but ended up thinking he is related to former Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. One wrote, "The former United States Attorney General's son?"

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Many, later, cleared the confusion of the name game and said, "Whoa. Man. I was wondering how the hell we missed that! Wrong Eric Holder!!" Ernest Owens, editor of Philadelphia Magazine's bygone LGBTQ news vertical G Philly, too clarified, "FYI: Eric R Holder Jr is not related to former Attorney General Eric Holder. Thought I should just put that out there."

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The former United States Attorney General's son?

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FYI: Eric R. Holder Jr. is not related to former Attorney General Eric Holder.

Thought I should just put that out there.

Whoa. Man. I was wondering how the hell we missed that! Wrong Eric Holder!!

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Eric Himpton Holder Jr is the former US attorney general, who got mistaken for being the father of Eric R Holder Jr, who would be sentenced on September 15 and could face a prison term that would amount to life in jail. People started pointing out why this confusion may have arisen. On said, "It's like they added the "Jr" just so everyone thinks there's a relation to the former AG @CBSLA intern getting that click bonus."

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It's like they added the "Jr" just so everyone thinks there's a relation to the former AG@CBSLA intern getting that click bonus

As reported by CBS News, when the trial began last month in June, prosecutors said Holder's attack was calculated and planned in advance. Deputy District Attorney John McKinney said there was "no doubt" Holder knew he'd kill Hussle, adding that Holder shot Hussle at least 10 times and kicked him in the head before running away. To which, Holder's attorney Aaron Jansen told the jury, as reported by AP, that Hussle's murder wasn't planned, and said Holder didn't mean to shoot the two bystanders. He pinned the attack on "heated passion."

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On July 6, jurors deliberated for about six hours over two days before reaching the verdict, which went on for more than three years and a trial that was delayed because of the pandemic. Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney John McKinney said, "Holder had a conversation with Hussle and two others at The Marathon in South Los Angeles, but Holder had been angered over accusations he was a snitch." Holder and Hussle, who grew up together, were members of the Rollin 60s Neighborhood Crips gang, McKinney said. The videos and photos presented at the trial showed Holder running away while holding a semiautomatic revolver by which he shot Hussle multiple times.

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Eric Holder has been found guilty in the murder of Nipsey Hussle ... gunning the rapper and activist down in broad daylight back in 2019.

The jury returned the guilty verdict in an L.A. courtroom Wednesday, about 3 weeks after the trial began. He was found guilty of 1st-degree murder for killing Nipsey. Holder shot two other people during the murder -- he was found guilty of 2 counts of attempted voluntary manslaughter, guilty of 2 counts of assault with a firearm and guilty of possession of a firearm by a felon. He was found not guilty of premeditated attempted murder.

The details of the brutal murder were outlined early in the trial -- Deputy District Attorney John McKinney told the jury Holder kicked Nipsey in the head after filling his body with lead, calling it proof the attack was personal.

He then told the rapper "You're through," to which Nipsey replied, "You got me."

Among the people on the stand was Bryannita Nicholson, who was with Holder on the day of the murder. She stated Holder asked her to drive him around the block, she saw he had a gun and heard gunshots when Holder got out of her vehicle.

Kerry Lathan, one of the people that got shot in the back during the incident, took the stand during the trial, but he stayed pretty tight-lipped.

Holder got banged up during the trial when he was jumped by inmates at the jail waiting for transport to court. The trial was delayed for one day because of Holder's injuries -- which included a big gash to the back of the head that required staples.

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Eric Holder, the man charged in the fatal shooting of Grammy-nominated rapper Nipsey Hussle, was found guilty of first-degree murder on Wednesday, CBS Los Angeles reported. The jury deliberated for about six hours before reaching its verdict.

Holder, 32, had also been charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder because two bystanders were hit by gunfire, according to The Associated Press but the jury found him guilty of two counts of attempted voluntary manslaughter instead.

Hussle, born Ermias Asghedom, wasfatally shotoutside of his Los Angeles clothing store in March 2019. He was 33.

When the trial began last month,prosecutors saidHolder's attack was calculated and premeditated. Deputy District Attorney John McKinney said there was "no doubt" Holder knew he'd kill Hussle, adding that Holder shot Hussle at least 10 times and kicked him in the head before running away, according to the AP.

McKinney said there had been a dispute between the pair Hussle had heard Holder was a snitch and wanted to "clear that up," the AP reported. The deputy district attorney said the pair, along with two of Hussle's friends, had a "cool conversation" with Holder prior to the attack, noting Hussle didn't have any security with him when he visited his store.

However, prosecutors had a hard time getting witnesses to testify. One police officialattributed their reluctanceto a fear of being seen as a snitch, according to the AP.

Meanwhile, Holder's attorney Aaron Jansen told the jury that Hussle's murder wasn't planned, and said Holder didn't mean to shoot the two bystanders. He pinned the attack on "heated passion," the AP reported.

Last week, Holder was attacked by "multiple individuals" while in a jail holding cell, Jansen told CBS News. He was allegedly cut by a razor and taken to the hospital, where he received an MRI and staples in the back of his head, Jansen said.

Victoria Albert contributed reporting.

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In the run-up to the 2016 election, Liz Cheney issued a dire warning. The future of American democracy, and the nations place as a symbol of freedom to the world, was on the ballot. If voters chose poorly, she told Rush Limbaugh, the next president would be the most corrupt individual ever to sit in the Oval Office.

She was referring, of course, to Hillary Clinton.

At the time Cheney, the daughter of the former vice president, was a candidate for Congress with an incredibly bright future. Her campaign was such a formality that it was (I think) the only article in our post-election issue we didnt have to rewrite from scratch; a pig might fly or get elected president, but no Cheney was going to lose in Wyoming. The reason for her rising star was straightforward: She was a Bush administration veteran who was willing to go to the mat for President Donald Trump, no matter what the naysayers said. They both had a use for each other. By the start of her second term, she was chair of the House Republican Conference. When Trump ran for re-election she offered her endorsement.

But on Tuesday, Cheneys career in Congress came to an abrupt end, when she lost her Republican primary to conservative challenger Harriet Hageman. The election itself was mostly a formality. After voting to impeach President Donald Trump for his role in the January 6 insurrection and vowing to push back against his crusade to undermine our democracy, Cheney was stripped last year of her House leadership position. The Wyoming GOP censured her, and later voted to no longer recognize her as a Republican. Although her father once represented the state in Congress and remains its most famous political export, Republicans in the state had swung hard to the right in the Trump years. On January 6, while Cheney and her colleagues were besieged inside the Capitol, the state GOP chairwhose name was included on a leaked list of Oathkeepers memberswas protesting outside.

This is not the first time that Cheney has found herself in the political wilds. When George W. Bush and Dick Cheney left office in 2009, Republicans werent clamoring for a return to the glory days. Neither of them have addressed a Republican National Convention since they left office. As the country tried to put the Bush years in its past, Liz Cheney emerged as a mouthpiece for an administration and a political movement in exile.

But she understood that by couching this Bush-era Lost Cause rhetoric in the anti-Obama language of the conservative base, she could find not just an audience, but a fresh start. She became a regular on Fox News and talk radio in these years, serving as a hype woman for her fathers career, and tearing into the Obama administration with such fervor that some conservatives floated her for president.

Was she a birther? Not personally, but she indulged the racist lie with the same cowardly coddling that everyone else in the party did. One of the reasons you see people so concerned about this, I think this issue is, people are uncomfortable with having for the first time ever, I think, a president who seems so reluctant to defend the nation overseas, she said.

The rest of the administration didnt get off easy either. As I wrote in a piece for the magazine:

With [Bill] Kristol, a former McCain staffer, and the sister of a man who was killed on 9/11, Cheney formed a dark-money outfit called Keep America Safe, which sought to paint Obama as weak on security. One of the groups first ads bashed Attorney General Eric Holder for hiring attorneys who had once defended Guantanamo detainees. The spot referred to the lawyers as the Al Qaeda 7 and asked, Whose values do they share? as b-roll of someone who looked like Osama bin Laden played in the background. It was like 2004 all over again.

The role she had then and the role she has now are in many respects the same one, applied to radically different circumstancesshe is defending her movement against the pretenders who would sully its work. That she was wrong about Obama then and right about Trump now is obvious, but it was the willingness to play in the mud that made her a rising star and a member of Congress in the first place, just as it was the breakdown of public trust and civic guardrails during the Bush era that made possible Trumps MAGA ascent. By the time she decided that orange man, in fact, bad, the damage had long since been done. She is left to critique the ruling party in exile; the sort of person who in a different context people like the Cheneys might think to covertly fund and equip.

None of this is to erase the work shes done as a dogged and justifiably incensed leader on the January 6 Committee. She stands almost alone in her caucus, in her decision to not just quietly retire, or gripe anonymously to the press, but to actually fight back and wield the power she has against the threat shes so clearly recognized. Shell be fine, of course, both professionally and financially, but if the stand she took cost nothing, well, a lot more people would have taken it. But perhaps her fate might also be a lesson to the aspiring public servants out therethat the movement you cynically stoke might some day come for you, too.

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Real Time withBill Maher" hostdiscussed cannabis legalization withformer Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday'sOvertime segment during which he made a provocative prediction.

Maher began withan audience-submittedquestion:Why isn't Biden pushing for federal legalization of marijuana?

Holder replied: I think it's probably something we ought to do given the fact that it is something that would have a great political benefit and also deals with the reality. You know people are using marijuana it's being legalized across states.

Maher, a cannabis enthusiast, replied: I've heard that.

Yeah, yeah, I've heard that you've heard that,Holder said.

After their humorous repartee,they adoptedamore serious tone.Our drug policy needs to catch up with what the reality is. Marijuana is still a Schedule 1 drug. Its ridiculous, it is ridiculous, Holder said.

Republicans are going to steal the issue, I think eventually. I mean someone like John Boehner works for a marijuana company now," Maher said. "I mean it could be one of those freedom issues, and of course, Republicans smoke lots of pot too.

Not enough! Holder replied.

Boehner,former minority Housespeaker during the Obama administration, joined the board of Acreage Holdings ACRDF in 2018,later launched theNational Cannabis Roundtable and was recently accusedof stealing data from a fellow marijuana lobbyist.

Too Much Equity?

Mahersaid that "there was something that was passed in the House, but the Republicans are against it because they said it has too much stuff about equity. He noted that itmakes senseto give thosenegatively impacted by the war on drugs priority when it comesto getting involved in the legal cannabis industry. For Republicans, he said, this seems to be a deal-breaker.

"What do you want, half a loaf? If they said okay, no equity, is it better to have the law passed or changed or is it better to hold out for equity? Maher asked.

Its better to have the law changed, and as I said deal with the societal reality that we have," Holder replied. "Try to make it as equitable as you possibly can. But, I wouldnt want to stop the movement that I think makes sense for the sake of equity.

TheHouse of Representativesapprovedthe Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement (MORE) Act,H.R. 3617on April 1, sending it to Senate. The MORE Act removes cannabis from the federal Controlled Substances Act, allowing states to legalize cannabis and makeits productionand salefree from federal interference.

In the House, the measure received only three GOP votes fromFlorida Reps. Brian Mast and Matt Gaetzand Rep. Tom McClintock (Cal) and all but two Democratvotes,Henry Cuellar (Texas)and Chris Pappas, (N.H.)

Shortly after this important step forward inmarijuana's legalization journey, Chuck Schumer (D-NY) confirmed that he and his colleagues areplanning to consult with Republican senators to find out what they want included in his bill to federally legalize cannabis, which he says he'llpresent in August.

Probably not all Republicans agree on everything regarding marijuana legalization, but some of them openly supportit, with certain specifications.

For example, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), viewed as one of the leaders among GOP representatives in favor of removing cannabis from the list of federally controlled substances, voted against the MORE Act. Why?

The MORE Act forces a system on South Carolinians and other states they do not want. By comparison, my bill, the States Reform Act, removes the federal government from the equation and allows states to decide for themselves, Mace explained.

She presented her own bill,the States Reform Act,in November 2021, but the measure failed in 12 committees and seven subcommittees without a hearing.

Other GOP senators, such as Rick Scott, James Lankford and Ted Cruz also revealed their reasons for opposing reform.

Meanwhile, despite the opposition, GOP support is growing, and there is also a GOP cannabis legalization measure from Rep. Mace and many other local ones. So, could it be that Maher is onto something?

For many cannabis reformadvocates, it may not matter whopushes it over the lineas long aslegalization is the final outcome. And thankfully, many experts believe that although the process isslow, legalizationis inevitable.

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Original publication: June 6, 2022

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