Law_Crime

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** FILE ** Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos, right, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 3, 2010. (Associated Press)

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"Criminals are getting the message that good Detroiters are armed and will use that weapon," Detroit Police Chief James Craig told The Detroit News, citing declining crime statistics in the Motor City. (associated press)

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Detainees sleep and watch television in a holding cell where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center on Wednesday, June 18, 2014, in Nogales, Ariz. CPB provided media tours Wednesday of two locations in Brownsville, Texas, and Nogales, that have been central to processing the more than 47,000 unaccompanied children who have entered the country illegally since Oct. 1. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool)

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George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley has said that the framers of the Constitution would be shocked by how much power has gravitated to the president. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican, Wednesday played a 2012 recording of then-Labor Secretary Hilda Solis asking someone to attend political fundraiser. Some say the call is a violation of the Hatch Act, which restricts the political activities of some federal government executive branch employees. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Mikhail Kalashnikov shows a model of his world-famous AK-47 assault rifle at home in the Ural Mountain city of Izhevsk in 1997. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Mikhail Kalashnikov shows a model of his world-famous AK-47 assault rifle at home in the Ural Mountain city of Izhevsk in 1997 (Associated Press)

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Women activists representing the National Women's Law Center (left) and Planned Parenthood stand outside the Senate chamber after Senate Democrats' effort to proceed on the “Protect Women’s Health From Corporate Interference Act,” was thwarted, on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 16, 2014. Democrats sponsored the election-year bill to reverse last month's Supreme Court ruling that closely held businesses with religious objections could deny coverage under President Barack Obama's health care law. (Associated Press) **FILE**