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ADDS NAME OF MAN AS RUSS TIDWELL - Russ Tidwell, a former lobbyist who is helping minority rights groups sue Texas over Republican-drawn voting maps enters the federal court house, Monday, July 10, 2017, in San Antonio, where a redistricting trial is set to begin. Federal courts earlier this year found that Texas passed election laws to purposefully discriminate against Hispanic and black voters and the trial starting today could redraw Texas voting maps before 2018 and bolster Democratic efforts to reclaim Congress. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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ADDS NAME OF MAN AS RUSS TIDWELL - Russ Tidwell, a former lobbyist who is helping minority rights groups sue Texas over Republican-drawn voting maps holds a set of maps as he makes his way to the federal court house, Monday, July 10, 2017, in San Antonio, where a redistricting trial is set to begin. Federal courts earlier this year found that Texas passed election laws to purposefully discriminate against Hispanic and black voters and the trial starting Monday could redraw Texas voting maps before 2018 and bolster Democratic efforts to reclaim Congress. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A tower is pictured outside of the razor wire at the Great Plains Correctional Facility in Hinton, Okla, Monday, July 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) **FILE**
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A GEO corrections vehicle drives past the front gate of the Great Plains Correctional Facility in Hinton, Okla, Monday, July 10, 2017. The GEO Group, Inc. the Florida-based operator of the private prison, estimated that about 400 inmates caused a disturbance late Sunday, July 9, 2017, taking two guards hostage and refusing to return to their cells before they were finally corralled by law enforcement officers. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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A GEO corrections vehicle patrols outside of the Great Plains Correctional Facility in Hinton, Okla, Monday, July 10, 2017. The GEO Group, Inc., the Florida-based operator of the private prison, estimated that about 400 inmates caused a disturbance late Sunday, July 9, 2017, taking two guards hostage and refusing to return to their cells before they were finally corralled by law enforcement officers. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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Chairs and debris in the prison yard are pictured through layers of wire at the Great Plains Correctional Facility in Hinton, Okla, Monday, July 10, 2017. The GEO Group, Inc. is the Florida-based operator of the private prison, estimated that about 400 inmates caused a disturbance late Sunday, July 9, 2017, taking two guards hostage and refusing to return to their cells before they were finally corralled by law enforcement officers. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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People walk on the roof above the front gate of the Great Plains Correctional Facility in Hinton, Okla, Monday, July 10, 2017. The GEO Group, Inc., the Florida-based operator of the private prison, estimated that about 400 inmates caused a disturbance late Sunday, July 9, 2017, taking two guards hostage and refusing to return to their cells before they were finally corralled by law enforcement officers. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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This June 20, 2017, photo provided by Dan Ehl shows attorney Raymond Tinnian in Kalona, Iowa. Police and prosecutors have agreed to pay Tinnian $285,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit in which he alleges he spent 16 days in jail after he was framed by a longtime tormentor and falsely accused of threatening witnesses and a juror. (Dan Ehl via AP)
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FILE - In this June 14, 2017 file photo, a Capitol Hill Police officer stands his post at the entrance to the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington. U.S. Capitol Police have investigated more threats to members of Congress in the first six months of the year than in all of 2016, says the chief law enforcement official for the House, as Majority Whip Steve Scalise remains hospitalized after a gunman opened fire at a baseball practice nearly a month ago. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Texas Rep. Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas, talks with the media before entering the federal court house for a redistricting trial, Monday, July 10, 2017, in San Antonio. Federal courts earlier this year found that Texas passed election laws to purposefully discriminate against Hispanic and black voters and the trial starting today could redraw Texas voting maps before 2018 and bolster Democratic efforts to reclaim Congress. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A man enters the federal court house, Monday, July 10, 2017, in San Antonio, where a redistricting trial is set to begin. Federal courts earlier this year found that Texas passed election laws to purposefully discriminate against Hispanic and black voters and the trial starting Monday could redraw Texas voting maps before 2018 and bolster Democratic efforts to reclaim Congress. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Boxes are pushed into the federal court house, Monday, July 10, 2017, in San Antonio, where a redistricting trial is set to begin. Federal courts earlier this year found that Texas passed election laws to purposefully discriminate against Hispanic and black voters and the trial starting Monday could redraw Texas voting maps before 2018 and bolster Democratic efforts to reclaim Congress. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Boxes are pushed into the federal court house, Monday, July 10, 2017, in San Antonio, where a redistricting trial is set to begin. Federal courts earlier this year found that Texas passed election laws to purposefully discriminate against Hispanic and black voters and the trial starting Monday could redraw Texas voting maps before 2018 and bolster Democratic efforts to reclaim Congress. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A man pulls boxes into the federal court house, Monday, July 10, 2017, in San Antonio, where a redistricting trial is set to begin. Federal courts earlier this year found that Texas passed election laws to purposefully discriminate against Hispanic and black voters and the trial starting Monday could redraw Texas voting maps before 2018 and bolster Democratic efforts to reclaim Congress. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A group moves boxes into the federal court house, Monday, July 10, 2017, in San Antonio, where a redistricting trial is set to begin. Federal courts earlier this year found that Texas passed election laws to purposefully discriminate against Hispanic and black voters and the trial starting Monday could redraw Texas voting maps before 2018 and bolster Democratic efforts to reclaim Congress. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A man with a set of maps enters the federal court house, Monday, July 10, 2017, in San Antonio, where a redistricting trial is set to begin. Federal courts earlier this year found that Texas passed election laws to purposefully discriminate against Hispanic and black voters and the trial starting today could redraw Texas voting maps before 2018 and bolster Democratic efforts to reclaim Congress. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A man enters the federal court house, Monday, July 10, 2017, in San Antonio, where a redistricting trial is set to begin. Federal courts earlier this year found that Texas passed election laws to purposefully discriminate against Hispanic and black voters and the trial starting Monday could redraw Texas voting maps before 2018 and bolster Democratic efforts to reclaim Congress. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A man with a set of maps makes his way to the federal court house, Monday, July 10, 2017, in San Antonio, where a redistricting trial is set to begin. Federal courts earlier this year found that Texas passed election laws to purposefully discriminate against Hispanic and black voters and the trial starting Monday could redraw Texas voting maps before 2018 and bolster Democratic efforts to reclaim Congress. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2016 file photo, U.S. Attorney Damon Martinez speaks to reporters from his desk in Albuquerque, N.M. Former U.S. attorney, Martinez, who led the office during Justice Department reforms of Albuquerque police, is running for an open congressional seat in central New Mexico. Martinez announced Monday, July 10, 2017, that he is jumping into a crowded Democratic primary to succeed U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat who is running for New Mexico governor. (AP Photo/Mary Hudetz,File)
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Rebecca Moriarty, 34, reads a letter she presented Monday, July 10, 2017 in Amman, Jordan to a Jordanian military court judge presiding over the trial of a Jordanian soldier charged with murder in the deadly shootings of Moriarty’s brother, James, and two other U.S. Army Green Berets last year. A verdict is expected next week, with the defendant facing life in prison if convicted. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil)
