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FILE - In this Wednesday, March 1, 2017, file photo, Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Kevin Davis speaks at a news conference in Baltimore to announce that seven Baltimore police officers who worked on a firearms crime task force are facing charges of stealing money, property and narcotics from people over two years. Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh and Davis worked closely with Justice Department investigators to scrutinize the city's police force and embraced a plan they crafted to overhaul the troubled department. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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FILE – In this Jan. 23, 2017, file photo, Hamilton County, Ohio, Common Pleas Court Judge Leslie Ghiz meets with attorneys concerning the retrial of former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing in the July 19, 2015, traffic stop shooting death of motorist Sam DuBose, during a hearing in Cincinnati. Ghiz was scheduled to meet with attorneys and prosecutors Tuesday, April 4, 2017, to discuss pretrial progress for Tensing's murder retrial set to begin May 25, 2017, after his first trial ended with a hung jury. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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FILE – In this July 30, 2015 file photo, former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing, center, glances toward his lawyer Stewart Mathews, right, after entering not guilty pleas on charges of murder and voluntary manslaughter in the July 19, 2015, traffic stop shooting of Samuel DuBose, during Tensing's arraignment at the Hamilton County Courthouse in Cincinnati. Hamilton County, Ohio, Common Pleas Court Judge Leslie Ghiz was scheduled to meet with attorneys and prosecutors Tuesday, April 4, 2017, to discuss pretrial progress for Tensing's murder retrial set to begin May 25, 2017, after his first trial ended with a hung jury. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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A C-SPAN poll finds 26 percent of Americans don't have an opinion on Supreme Court justice nominee Neil Gorsuch's qualifications and 43 percent support his confirmation. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Thursday, March 9, 2017, file photo, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor gestures during a speech at the University of California at Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif. Sotomayor and her fellow judges sometimes disagree about decisions, but are collegial because they respect each other's passion for the law, she told students at Albany Law School in New York on Monday, April 3. 2017. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
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Opponents of SB54, which would create a statewide sanctuary for immigrants in the country illegally, prepare to testify against the measure in the Senate Appropriations Committee in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, March 13, 2017. The committee set the bill for a vote by the full Senate later this month. (AP Photo/Don Thompson)
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FILE - In this Aug. 10, 2016, file photo, police Commissioner Kevin Davis, left, listens as Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake speaks during a news conference at City Hall in response to a Justice Department report in Baltimore. The Justice Department on April 3, 2017, asked a federal judge for more time to “review and assess” a proposed agreement to reform the Baltimore Police Department, saying it needed to determine how it might interfere with Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ new focus on fighting violent crime. (Kim Hairston/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
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Senate Minority Leader Sen. Charles Schumer of N.Y., speaks during an interview in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2017, file photo, Brand Thornton blows a horn in support of defendants on trial at the federal courthouse in Las Vegas. A judge's ruling means a jury may only hear from one or two defense witnesses in the trial of six men accused of wielding guns against federal agents during a 2014 standoff involving Nevada cattleman and states’ rights advocate Cliven Bundy. After nearly two months of prosecution testimony, defense attorneys on Monday, April 3, were knocked off a plan to call most of about 10 witnesses. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2017, file photo, supporters and critics of defendants on trial at the federal courthouse gather in Las Vegas. A judge's ruling means a jury may only hear from one or two defense witnesses in the trial of six men accused of wielding guns against federal agents during a 2014 standoff involving Nevada cattleman and states’ rights advocate Cliven Bundy. After nearly two months of prosecution testimony, defense attorneys on Monday, April 3, were knocked off a plan to call most of about 10 witnesses. (AP Photo/John Locher, FIle)
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FILE - This Feb. 25, 2015 file photo shows filmmaker Roman Polanski during a break in a hearing concerning a U.S. request for his extradition over 1977 charges of sex with a minor, in Krakow, Poland. A Los Angeles judge on Monday, April 3, 2017 rejected a request by Polanski to end his 40-year-old case for unlawful sex with a minor without the director's presence in court, as well as other request that would draw the case to a close. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, File)
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FILE - In a Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015 file photo, Pope Francis greets corrections officers at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Philadelphia, during his visit there. A New Jersey teenager has admitted plotting to kill Pope Francis when he visited Philadelphia in 2015. Seventeen-year-old Santos Colon Jr. pleaded guilty as an adult Monday, April 3, 2017, to attempting to provide material support to terrorists. The Lindenwold resident faces up to 15 years in prison. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times, Pool)
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In this Jan. 23, 2015 file photo, wild horses are seen during a BLM tour in the Pine Nut Mountains just outside of Dayton, Nev. On May 2, 2017, the American Wild Horse Campaign alerted its supporters to a provision in the omnibus spending package before Congress that it says will harm the welfare of wild horses on federal lands by lessening legal protections against their exploitation and slaughter. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP)/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP) **FILE**
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FILE - This combination of undated file photos provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows death-row inmates Jason F. McGehee, left, and Kenneth Williams. Both men are scheduled for execution on April 27, 2017. (Arkansas Department of Correction via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Carlos Ayestas. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday, April 3, 2017, to consider the appeal of Ayestas, who is on Texas death row and attorneys contend had poor legal help at his trial and in earlier stages of his appeals. Ayestas, 47, was condemned for beating and strangling a Houston woman during a robbery at her home more than 20 years ago. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
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Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, arrives at the Ministry of Defense, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 3, 2017. (AP Photo)
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FILE - This undated file booking photo provided by the Henderson Police Department shows Gregory Brent Dennis. Dennis, a Nevada psychologist, has been arrested in the death of his lawyer's wife two years ago. Henderson police said Dennis was arrested Thursday, Feb. 2, following a lengthy investigation. On Monday, April 3, 2017, Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg said that new evidence prompted him to change Susan Winters' cause of death from suicide to "undetermined." (Henderson Police Department via AP)
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Wagoner County Sheriff Chris Elliott speaks to media about Elizabeth Rodriguez, the get away driver in a failed burglary resulting in the death of three, at the Wagoner County Courthouse on Monday, April 3, 2017, in Wagoner, Okla. Rodriguez told television reporters that she feels guilty, but not responsible for their deaths and that she has little compassion for the man who shot them. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)
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The body of Harris County Precinct 3 Assistant Chief Deputy Clinton Greenwood is escorted to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, Monday, April 3, 2017, in Houston. Greenwood died after he was shot moments after arriving for work at the courthouse in Baytown, Texas. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 21, 2016, photo, Harris County Sheriff's Office Maj. Clint Greenwood answers questions during a civil service commission, in Houston. Harris County Precinct 3 Assistant Chief Deputy Greenwood was shot and killed Monday, April 3, 2017, moments after arriving for work. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP)
