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Arizona state Democratic representatives gather on the floor of the House during floor debate at the capitol Wednesday, May 10, 2017, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Boston Red Sox's Jackie Bradley Jr. is congratulated after hitting a home run during the second inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Wednesday, May 10, 2017, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
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Arizona state House Speaker J.D. Mesnard, R-Chandler, speaks on the House floor as he withdraws one of his amendments for consideration at the capitol Wednesday, May 10, 2017, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Arizona state Rep. Mark Cardenas, right, D-Phoenix, speaks on the House floor during debate with Rep. Jeff Weninger, left, R-Chandler, regarding a tax credit bill at the capitol Wednesday, May 10, 2017, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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This image provided by the Director of National Intelligence, shows William Evanina, the government's chief counterintelligence officer. (Director of National Intelligence via AP) **FILE**
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FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2015 file photo, Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt testifies before the House Judiciary committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Nevada lawmakers are calling for a public hearing after a state official provided a sworn statement saying that meetings Attorney General Laxalt held with a Republican political donor and Laxalt's subsequent legal advice may have amounted to corruption. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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In this June 24, 2016 photo, Erica Witt, left, cries as she is denied same-sex parenting rights during a Knox County Circuit Court hearing in Knoxville, Tenn. Judge Greg McMillan opined that because she is a woman who legally married a woman, state law does not confer to her any parenting rights. At right is her attorney Virginia Schwamm. (Amy Smotherman Burgess/Knoxville News Sentinel via AP)
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In this June 24, 2016 photo, Erica Witt, left, cries as she is denied same-sex parenting rights during a Knox County Circuit Court hearing in Knoxville, Tenn. Judge Greg McMillan opined that because she is a woman who legally married a woman, state law does not confer to her any parenting rights. At right is her attorney Virginia Schwamm. (Amy Smotherman Burgess/Knoxville News Sentinel via AP)
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Dianna Doltar wears handcuffs and stands in a mock jail cell in protest outside of a Nevada prison facility Wednesday, May 10, 2017, in Pahrump, Nev. Supporters of rancher Cliven Bundy and his sons are holding a protest outside a rural Nevada prison facility where defendants in a 2014 standoff with federal agents await trial in federal court in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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Dianna Doltar wears handcuffs and stands in a mock jail cell in protest outside of a Nevada prison facility Wednesday, May 10, 2017, in Pahrump, Nev. Supporters of rancher Cliven Bundy and his sons are holding a protest outside a rural Nevada prison facility where defendants in a 2014 standoff with federal agents await trial in federal court in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, left, Maine Gov. Paul LePage, center, and Kellyanne Conway, an advisor to President Trump, conduct a meeting to discuss the state's efforts to fight the opioid epidemic, Wednesday, May 10, 2017, at the State House in Augusta, Maine. The meeting includes relatives of those struggling with addiction as well as representatives from the recovery community, drug treatment specialists and law enforcement officials. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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FILE - In this undated file photo, Mississippi County Sheriff Cory Hutcheson sits behind his desk at the Mississippi County Detention Center in Charleston, Mo. Hutcheson, a Missouri sheriff who continued to work despite having his sheriff's license suspended after his arrest last month on assault and other charges, was involved in a jail altercation last week in which an inmate died, Missouri's top prosecutor said in calling for his firing on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. (Leonna Heuring/Sikeston Standard Democrat via AP, File)
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A statue of Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard at the entrance to New Orleans City Park. A last-ditch effort to block the removal of a monument to a Confederate general in New Orleans was rejected Wednesday, May 10, 2017, by a Louisiana judge who turned away arguments that the city doesn't own the statue or the land on which it sits. (AP Photo/Kevin McGill) ** FILE **
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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows inmate Robert James Campbell. Campbell, on Texas death row for nearly 25 years for the abduction, rape and slaying of a 20-year-old Houston bank teller is getting his sentence reduced to life in prison after state attorneys told a federal court Wednesday, May 10, 2017, they agreed with the inmate's lawyers that he's mentally impaired, meaning he's ineligible for execution under U.S. Supreme Court rulings. Campbell, 44, will be resentenced to life and be eligible for parole because Texas did not yet have life without parole when he was arrested for the 1991 slaying of Alejandra Rendon. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
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In this Nov. 20, 2016, file photo, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, right, holds a stack of papers as he meets with President-elect Donald Trump at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J. A federal judge ordered Kobach to disclose as part of a lawsuit challenging the state's voter registration requirements proposed changes to a federal voting law that he was photographed taking to the meeting. U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson gave Kobach until Friday, May 12 to hand them over to the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing the Kansas voters and the League of Women Voters in that federal lawsuit. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) **FILE**
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Former FBI Director James Comey walks at his home in McLean, Va., Wednesday, May 10, 2017. President Donald Trump fired Comey on Tuesday, ousting the nation's top law enforcement official in the midst of an investigation into whether Trump's campaign had ties to Russia's election meddling. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)
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FILE - In this April 25, 2017 file photo, Venezuela's Chief Prosecutor Luisa Ortega speaks during a news conference at her office in Caracas, Venezuela. Some opposition leaders believe the use of the military tribunals reflects President Nicolas Maduro’s weakening grip on power and a desire to circumvent Ortega, who has ordered some detained protesters to be freed after determining there was not enough evidence to prosecute them. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
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Seattle Mariners' Yovani Gallardo pitches during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Wednesday, May 10, 2017, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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Philadelphia Phillies' Zach Eflin pitches during the third inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners, Wednesday, May 10, 2017, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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A NYPD diver searches the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir near Central Park West and 90th Street, Wednesday May 10, 2017, in New York. The bodies of two men have been discovered over two days in Central Park, each floating in a lake, but investigators don't believe either was the victim of a crime, police said. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
