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Faisal Shahzad, a U.S. citizen shown in this photo from the social networking site Orkut.com, was arrested Monday, May 3, 2010, at Kennedy Airport in New York on charges that he drove a bomb-laden SUV meant to cause a fireball in Times Square, federal authorities said. (AP Photo/Orkut.com)

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Church of Scientology lawyer Patrick Maisonneuve, left, speaks to reporters after a court returned a verdict of fraud against the group, at a Paris courthouse on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

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**FILE** In this photo from Jan. 15, 2010, a candlelight vigil is held at South Hadley High School in Massachusetts for freshman Phoebe Prince, 15, who had killed herself the previous day. Nine teens were charged in the "unrelenting" bullying of Prince, originally from Ireland, who killed herself after being raped and enduring months of torment by classmates in person and online. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan in March 2003. (Associated Press)

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In this Nov. 4, 2009 file photo, a Detroit woman holds a Employment Guide standing in line while attending a job fair in Livonia, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File) **FILE**

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** FILE ** John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, June 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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** FILE ** Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, a Republican, filed the lawsuit to strike down the federal health-care law in defense of a new state law that prohibits the government from forcing state residents to buy health insurance. (The Washington Times)

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Rocky Galloway (left) and Reginald Stanley hold their twin daughters after the two men were married by the Rev. Sylvia E. Sumter (center) on Tuesday, March 9, 2010, the first day that gay marriage was legal in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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**FILE** This 2003 photo obtained by the Associated Press shows a detainee bent over with his hands on the bars of a prison cell at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo)

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The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court pose for a portrait on Monday, Sept. 29, 2009. Pictured are (top row, left to right) Associate Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr., Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, (bottom row, left to right) Anthony M. Kennedy and John Paul Stevens; Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.; and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. (Allison Shelley/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** An U.S. Chinook helicopter overflies Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, July 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Illustration: Terrible testify.

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**FILE** A Customs and Border Protection officer takes a passenger's fingerprints upon arrival in Washington. (Department of Homeland Security)

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** FILE ** Former Boston University medical student Philip Markoff (center) stands with his attorney, John Salsberg (right), during his arraignment in Suffolk Superior Court on Monday, June 22, 2009, in Boston. Mr. Markoff was charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of one woman and the gunpoint robbery of another woman in downtown Boston hotels. (AP Photo/Bizuayehu Tesfaye, Pool)

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**FILE** In this Oct. 3, 1995, photo, O.J. Simpson (center) reacts as he is found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend Ronald Goldman, as members of his defense team, F. Lee Bailey (left) and Johnnie Cochran Jr., look on in court in Los Angeles. (Associated Press)

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John Albert Gardner III (center, seated) lowers his head as a video presentation of Chelsea King is played during his sentencing May 14 in San Diego. Gardener, a sex offender who admitted murdering Chelsea and another teenage girl, was sentenced to life in prison without parole. (Associated Press)

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Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan meets Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, May 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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**FILE** The current U.S. Supreme Court comprises (clockwise from upper left) Associate Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr., Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia; Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.; and Associate Justices John Paul Stevens and Anthony M. Kennedy. (The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** State Department legal adviser Harold Koh speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington in December 2005. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File)