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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)

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** FILE ** Eric Harris (left) and Dylan Klebold, carrying a TEC-9 semi-automatic pistol, are seen in a photo made from a security camera image in the cafeteria at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., during their shooting rampage on April 20, 1999. (AP Photo/Jefferson County Sheriff's Department)

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** FILE ** Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl, Arizona Republicans, listen on April 19 as Pinal County, Ariz., Sheriff Paul R. Babeu (left) calls for more National Guard troops for border security. Cochise County, Ariz., Sheriff Larry A. Dever (right) concurred. (AP Photo)

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**FILE** Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is shown to the press after his arrest in June 1993. (Associated Press)

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The U.S. Supreme Court building is seen in Washington on Friday, April 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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A Pakistani youth rides a donkey cart loaded with other children, as the sun sets on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, April 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Greivis Vasquez and the Maryland Terrapins are heading to the NCAA basketball tournament as a No. 4 seed. (AP file photo) **FILE**

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**FILE** Grenades allegedly belonging to soldiers who were killed by rebels sit on the ground in Corinto in southern Colombia in November. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Colombian army soldiers unload supplies from a helicopter during a February operation to relieve troops in Alto Guaduas, Caqueta state, in southern Colombia, a region with a strong presence of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PRESSING THE FLESH: Pat Meehan, a one-time U.S. prosecutor, is one of the National Republican Congressional Committee's designated "Young Guns" - the NRCC's premier recruits. He is running for the House seat in Pennsylvania's 7th District, a swing district in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

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FILE PHOTOAssociated Press. Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York (left) and fellow Democrat Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland are pressing ahead with plans for legislation to counteract the Supreme Court's recent ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, which invalidated some federal campaign-finance laws.

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** FILE ** Secretary of State James Baker speaks at a State Department press conference concerning U.S. troop movements in Panama, Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 1989. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)

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Demonstrators for and against same-sex marriage protest during a rally in front of a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Monday, Jan. 11, 2010. The first federal trial to determine if the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from outlawing same-sex marriage gets under way in San Francisco on Monday, and the two gay couples on whose behalf the case was brought will be among the first witnesses. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

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Graduates of the seminary program at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola officiate the prison's 18 inmate churches and do one-on-one ministry and grief counseling. Some graduates act as missionaries in eight satellite prisons in the state. Jan. 6, 2010 (Associated Press FILE)

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Disbarred Florida lawyer Scott Rothstein (left) and financier Allen Stanford have both pleaded not guilty to massive investment scams in 2009.

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This syringe detonator was used in a failed plot to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab reportedly told his FBI interrogators that "this is just the beginning." (ABC News)