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In this May 10, 2010, file photo, President Obama walks with his Supreme Court Justice nominee Elena Kagan, into the East Room of the White House in Washington. The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to delay her confirmation vote by a week. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says deep-water drilling must be suspended until investigators can determine a cause for the April 20 explosion that led to millions of barrels of oil being released into the Gulf of Mexico, a problem that is ongoing. (Associated Press)
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An undated photo provided by the Maryland Dept. of Public Safety & Correctional Services of Officer Gahiji Ajamu Tshamba, who has been charged with first-degree murder in the off-duty shooting of an unarmed man outside a Baltimore nightclub. Officer Gahiji A. Tshamba, 36, turned himself in early Sunday, June 14, 2010 more than a day after he was charged in a warrant with first-degree murder in the death of 32-year-old Tyrone Brown. (AP Photo/Baltimore Police Dept.)
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Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry, left, and Police Chief Ray Schultz, right, leave a press conference near the scene of a deadly shooting in Albuquerque, N.M., on Monday, July 12, 2010. Police said a man entered a building and shot nine people, five of whom died. Police said the gunman was found inside the building dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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In a photo shot on Jan. 16, 2009, Detroit Lions president Tom Lewand is seen during a news conference at Ford Field in Detroit. Lewand has pleaded guilty to driving while impaired. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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** FILE ** In this April 24, 2010, photo, film director Roman Polanski walks on the balcony of his chalet, named "Milky Way," in Gstaad, Switzerland, where he was under house arrest. The Swiss government declared renowned film director Roman Polanski a free man on Monday, July 12, 2010, after rejecting a U.S. request to extradite him on a charge of having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl. The Swiss mostly blamed U.S. authorities for failing to provide confidential testimony about Polanski's sentencing procedure in 1977-78. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)
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** FILE ** U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus (left) meeting with Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the Pakistani army chief, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on Monday, July 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Inter Services Public Relations Department)
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These are undated Metropolitan Police Service handout file photos of from left to right Arafat Waheed Khan, Waheed Zaman and Ibrahim Savant. The three British Muslims convicted of participating in a plot to bomb trans-Atlantic airliners were sentenced Monday, July 12, 2010, to at least 20 years in prison. (AP Photo Metropolitan Police, HO)
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The Swiss government declared well-known film director Roman Polanski free on Monday, July 12, 2010, after rejecting a U.S. request for extradition for a 1977 sex case. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A spokeswoman for Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. says sanctuary cities that refuse to enforce federal immigration laws will not face lawsuits like Arizona, which has passed a law on illegal immigrants.
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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. says he doesn't know whether a terrorist can face the death penalty if he or she were to plead guilty to a military commission. (CBS via Associated Press)
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Los Angeles police Sgt. Bill Smith (right) talks with Marine 1st Lt. Tylor Johnston as they ready for a ride-along in Los Angeles. Seventy Marines recently patrolled streets with the Los Angeles police in a weeklong exercise to help the Marines with law enforcement in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Yemeni soldiers guard convicted al Qaeda militants in San'a, Yemen, on July 11, 2010. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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A grieving Bosnian Muslim woman is comforted near the coffin of her relative, a victim of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in Potocari, Bosnia, on Sunday, July 11, 2010. Thousands gathered in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica to bury hundreds of massacre victims on the 15th anniversary of the worst crime in Europe since the Nazi era. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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** FILE ** A July 2009 self-portrait provided by the Island County (Wash.) Sheriff's Office shows Colton Harris-Moore, whom Bahamas police captured on Sunday, July 11, 2010, bringing to an end the "Barefoot Bandit's" two-year flight from U.S. justice. (AP Photo/Island County Sheriff's Office via the Herald, File)
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An Afghan policeman inspects a damaged vehicle at the scene of an explosion in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, July 10, 2010. One bystander was killed when the bomb, concealed in a parked motorcycle, exploded in the middle of the afternoon, said the city's security chief. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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A Bosnian Muslim woman holds the casket containing the remains of her son among coffins of Srebrenica victims displayed at the memorial center at Potocari near Srebrenica, 120 kms northeast of Sarajevo on Friday, July 9, 2010. 775 bodies were excavated from mass-graves in Eastern Bosnia and were identified as Muslims killed by Bosnian-Serb forces in the Srebrenica area. Bosnian Serb troops massacred up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men after capturing Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The 775 identified victims will be buried on July 11 in the Memorial Center Potocari. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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Police hold a demonstrator in Oakland, Calif., after a guilty verdict for Johannes Mehserle, Thursday, July 8, 2010. Former San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle was found guilty in Los Angeles for shooting unarmed black man Oscar Grant on New Year's Day 2009 at a BART station in Oakland. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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This image provided by the Los Angeles County Superior Court shows a cell phone image taken, according to lawyers, by Oscar Grant, of former San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle shortly before Mehserle shot Grant on New Year's Day 2009. Mehserle testified Friday June 25, 2010 that he mistakenly pulled out his pistol instead of a stun gun when he shot and killed an unarmed black man who was lying face down on an Oakland train platform. (AP Photo/ Los Angeles County Superior Court)
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This undated family photo provided by the Law Offices of John Burris shows Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old transit rider who was shot and killed by Bay Area Rapid Transit police on New Year's Day 2009. On Thursday, July 8, 2010, a jury in Los Angeles found former Bay Area Rapid Transit officer Johannes Mehserle guilty of involuntary manslaughter. (AP Photo/Family photo via the Law Offices of John Burris)
