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Justice Neil M. Gorsuch's first week hearing Supreme Court arguments features a Missouri case where a church is seeking public funding for a playground that can be used both by members' children as well as other kids in the local community. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2015 file photo, Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson, R-Benton, speaks at a legislative subcommittee meeting at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. Arkansas' attempt to carry out its first execution in nearly 12 years wasn't thwarted by the type of liberal activist judge Republicans regularly bemoan here, but instead by a state Supreme Court that's been the focus of expensive campaigns by conservative groups to reshape the judiciary. "I have ultimate respect for the court and I'm not going to question individual decisions but I would say there is frustration among the Legislature as to the court's continued refusal to allow an execution to go through," said Hutchinson, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)
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Juan Manuel Montes-Bojorquez, 23, qualified for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, but U.S. Customs and Border Protection said he violated terms of the program and was subject to deportation.
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Ledell Lee appears in Pulaski County Circuit Court Tuesday, April 18, 2017, for a hearing in which lawyers argued to stop his execution which is scheduled for Thursday. Unless a court steps in, Lee and Stacey Johnson are set for execution Thursday night. Lee was sentenced to death after being convicted of killing Debra Reese with a tire iron in February 1993 in Jacksonville. (Benjamin Krain/The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP)
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FILE - In this Aug. 25, 1997 file photo, Barry Loukaitis listens to his defense attorney make a motion during Loukaitis' murder trial Monday, Aug. 25, 1997 in Seattle. The prisoner who as a teenager opened fire at his middle school in Washington state has spoken out for the first time two decades later, apologizing for killing a teacher and two fellow students. Barry Loukaitis' hand-written letter to the Grant County Superior Court was filed last week as part of a court-ordered re-sentencing in the 1996 bloodshed. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2015 file still frame from surveillance video at Denver's Downtown Detention Center, released by the Denver Department of Safety via the law firm Killmer, Lane & Newman, LLP, 50-year-old homeless man Michael Marshall is placed into a restraint chair by Denver sheriff's deputies during a psychotic episode. He later died. Denver announced Wednesday, April 19, 2017, that two deputies and a supervisor were being disciplined in Marshall's death. (Denver Department of Safety/Killmer, Lane & Newman, LLP via AP, File)
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The Rev. Rowland Foster, center, shakes hands with defense attorney Chris Ferro, right, before a Wednesday, April 19, 2017, court hearing in Bernville, Pa. Foster, the leader of a Pennsylvania church that rejects modern medicine, won't stand trial after a judge dismissed a novel case Wednesday, April 19, 2017, that sought to hold the pastor responsible for failing to report suspected abuse when Foster's 2-year-old granddaughter Ella Foster died of pneumonia in November 2016. (AP Photo/Mark Scolforo)
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The Rev. Rowland Foster, center, shakes hands with defense attorney Chris Ferro, right, before a Wednesday, April 19, 2017, court hearing in Bernville, Pa. Foster, the leader of a Pennsylvania church that rejects modern medicine, won't stand trial after a judge dismissed a novel case Wednesday, April 19, 2017, that sought to hold the pastor responsible for failing to report suspected abuse when Foster's 2-year-old granddaughter Ella Foster died of pneumonia in November 2016. (AP Photo/Mark Scolforo)
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Immigrant rights groups present a petition asking lawmakers to help release a Nicaraguan asylum seeker, who was detained after a routine check-in with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in South Florida, at the office of Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Miami. At right is Ros-Lehtinen's Chief of Staff Maytee Sanz. Espilvio Sanchez-Benavidez is slated for deportation even as he continues to appeal his case in federal court. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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Elissett Saenz, right, walks with members of the immigrant community with her son Emanuel as she holds a photograph of her husband Charlie Rodriguez outside of the office of Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Miami. Rodriguez has been detained since he went to a scheduled appointment with ICE in March. Advocates and lawyers say these routine check-ins are increasingly resulting in the detention of immigrants who are in the country illegally but have no criminal record. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2016, file photo, Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Josh Huff watches during warmups before an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions in Detroit. Huff, facing a weapons charge in New Jersey, has been allowed to enter a pretrial program. Camden County prosecutors say he won’t face a jail term if he successfully completes the program. The wide receiver was playing for the Philadelphia Eagles when he was stopped for speeding on the New Jersey side of the Walt Whitman bridge last November. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
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Former Utah State University Linebacker Torrey Green looks on during an evidentiary hearing, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Logan, Utah. Judge Brian Cannell ruled Wednesday that there's enough evidence against the former Utah State University football player, accused of sexually assaulting seven women, for the case to go to trial. (Tim Carpenter/Utah Statesman via AP, Pool)
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This Monday, April 17, 2017, body camera photo provided by the Omaha Police Department shows Dillon Trejo, a suspect in a convenience store robbery in Omaha, Neb., confronting an Omaha police officer. The Omaha police chief and Douglas County prosecutors said Tuesday, April 18 the officer was justified in shooting Trejo, an unarmed man who reached into his waistband and then simulated bringing a gun to bear on the officer. Trejo was hospitalized after the shooting. (Omaha Police Department via AP)
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This Monday, April 17, 2017, body camera photo provided by the Omaha Police Department shows Dillon Trejo, a suspect in a convenience store robbery in Omaha, Neb., confronting an Omaha police officer. The Omaha police chief and Douglas County prosecutors said Tuesday, April 18 the officer was justified in shooting Trejo, an unarmed man who reached into his waistband and then simulated bringing a gun to bear on the officer. Trejo was hospitalized after the shooting. (Omaha Police Department via AP)
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This Monday, April 17, 2017, body camera photo provided by the Omaha Police Department shows Dillon Trejo, a suspect in a convenience store robbery in Omaha, Neb., confronting an Omaha police officer. The Omaha police chief and Douglas County prosecutors said Tuesday, April 18 the officer was justified in shooting Trejo, an unarmed man who reached into his waistband and then simulated bringing a gun to bear on the officer. Trejo was hospitalized after the shooting. (Omaha Police Department via AP)
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FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2016 file photo, former Illinois U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock talks to reporters in Peoria Heights, Ill. Federal prosecutors say former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock shouldn't get more information about a confidential informant in his corruption case. The prosecutors made the argument in a 60-page motion filed Tuesday April 18, 2017. Schock was indicted in 2016 after resigning from Congress. (Matt Dayhoff/Journal Star via AP, File)
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This undated photo released April 17, 2017, by the Carson City Sheriff's Office shows Victoria Morrison. The Nevada woman is facing felony fraud charges and had her four children taken away by child protective services after investigators discovered she had spent months faking her son's terminal illness and then his death in an effort to raise money online. (Carson City Sheriff's Office via AP)
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Racquel Smith, center, widow of former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith, leaves the Orleans Parish criminal courthouse with supporters, during a recess for a sentencing hearing for Cardell Hayes, who killed her husband and shot her, and was convicted of manslaughter in New Orleans, Wednesday, April 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Racquel Smith, center front, widow of former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith, leaves the Orleans Parish criminal courthouse with supporters, during a recess for a sentencing hearing for Cardell Hayes, who killed her husband and shot her, and was convicted of manslaughter in New Orleans, Wednesday, April 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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President Donald Trump talks about the Veterans Choice Program Extension and Improvement Act before signing it, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
