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FILE--In this June 22, 2016, file photo, Border Patrol agents ride vehicles along where the border meets the Pacific Ocean in San Diego. The U.S. Border Patrol's parent agency may exempt many veterans and law enforcement officers from a requirement that new hires take a lie-detector test. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, file)

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FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2016, file photo, Lynne Stewart talks during an interview at her home in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The outspoken New York civil rights lawyer who represented clients ranging from small-time criminals to radicals and was released early from prison three years ago because she was expected to die of cancer has died. Her husband, Ralph Poynter, said Stewart died Tuesday, March 7, 2017, in the Brooklyn home where she lived after receiving a "compassionate release" from prison in January 2014. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

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FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2005 file photo, Lynne Stewart cries as she speaks to the press with her husband Ralph Pointer, left, outside Federal Court in New York after Stewart's compassionate release from prison. The outspoken New York civil rights lawyer who represented clients ranging from small-time criminals to radicals and was released early from prison because she was expected to die of cancer has died. Her husband, Poynter, said Stewart died Tuesday, March 7, 2017, in the Brooklyn home where she lived after receiving a "compassionate release" from prison in January 2014. (AP Photo/David Karp, File)

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FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2009, file photo, Lynne Stewart speaks to supporters before entering federal court in Manhattan to surrender, in New York. Stewart, the outspoken civil rights lawyer who represented the downtrodden and was disbarred and jailed after being convicted of helping a terrorist client communicate with followers, died Tuesday March 7, 2017, in Brooklyn at age 77. She was released early from prison three years ago because she was expected to die of cancer. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

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Theodore Boutrous Jr., an attorney for Daniel Ramirez Medina, arrives at the federal courthouse in Seattle, Wednesday, March 8, 2017 for a hearing for Medina, a Seattle-area man who was arrested and detained by immigration agents despite his participation in a federal program to protect those brought to the U.S. illegally as children. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Mark Rosenbaum, right, an attorney for Daniel Ramirez Medina, arrives at the federal courthouse in Seattle, Wednesday, March 8, 2017 for a hearing for Medina, a Seattle-area man who was arrested and detained by immigration agents despite his participation in a federal program to protect those brought to the U.S. illegally as children. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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This booking photo released Wednesday, March 8, 2017, by the Concord, N.H., Police Department shows Rhianna Frenette arrested and accused of giving heroin and methamphetamine to Felicia Farruggia, who had demanded to be injected with the drugs while in labor with her son in September 2016. The state took custody of the baby boy after he was born. Police also arrested Farruggia. (Concord Police Department via AP)

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This booking photo released Wednesday, March 8, 2017, by the Concord, N.H., Police Department shows Felicia Farruggia, arrested about six months after she had demanded to be injected with heroin and methamphetamine while in labor with her son in September 2016. The state took custody of the baby boy after he was born. Police also arrested Rhianna Frenette, accused of giving Farruggia the drugs. (Concord Police Department via AP)

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In this June 22, 2016, file photo, a Border Patrol agent walks along a border structure in San Diego, Calif. The U.S. Border Patrol's parent agency may exempt many veterans and law enforcement officers from a requirement that new hires take a lie-detector test. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, file)

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FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2014, file photo, Eric Frein, charged with the murder of Pennsylvania State Trooper Cpl. Byron Dickson and critically wounding Trooper Alex Douglass is taken to prison after a preliminary hearing in Pike County Courthouse in Milford, Pa. Jury selection in the capital murder trial of Frein opens Thursday, March 9, 2017. .(Michael J. Mullen/The Times & Tribune via AP)

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Laurel Schlemmer, who is accused of drowning two of her sons, is escorted to the courtroom at the Allegheny County Courthouse to appear for her nonjury trial before Judge Jeffrey A. Manning, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. Ms. Schlemmer is accused of drowning her sons Luke, 3, and Daniel, 6, in the bathtub of their McCandless, Pa., home on April 1, 2014. (Andrew Rush/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

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Signs are posted at the Grindcore House restaurant shuttered in solidarity with "A Day Without a Woman" in Philadelphia, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. Organizers of January's Women's March are calling on women to stay home from work and not spend money in stores or online to show their impact on American society. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Attorney Othni Lathram speaks before the Alabama House Judiciary Committee about a procedural question about impeachment on Tuesday March 7, 2017 at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala. The impeachment investigation of Gov. Robert Bentley will remain paused after the attorney general’s office indicated its investigation involving the governor is not complete. The House Judiciary Committee voted X-Y Tuesday to remain halted on a “month-to-month” basis. (Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)

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Participants march to mark the International Women's Day in Tokyo, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. In Tokyo, some 200 women gathered for a march, protesting against wage disparities, sexual harassment and other challenges that they say still face.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2017, file photo, Laverne Cox attends the 10th Annual Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards ceremony in Beverly Hills, Calif. Variety and Deadline reported on March 7, 2017, that Cox would star on ABC pilot “The Trustee” as an ex-con alongside Meaghan Rath. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

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An Indian woman laborer carrying sand at a construction site is silhoutted against the Arabian Sea on International Women's Day in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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This photo provided by the Ramsay County Sheriff's Offfice in St. Paul, Minn., shows Linwood Kaine, the youngest son of U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine. Kaine was one of several people arrested Saturday, March 4, 2017, during a counter protest at a rally in support of President Donald Trump at the State Capitol rotunda in St. Paul. (Ramsay County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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A protester wearing a mask joins a rally as they mark International Women's Day in Manila, Philippines on Wednesday March 8, 2017. The women's group is also opposing the revival of the death penalty by the Philippine Congress. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

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Philadelphia firefighters walk past a blaze at the PECO electrical substation in the Nicetown-Tioga neighborhood, Tuesday, March 7, 2017, in Philadelphia. Tens of thousands of electric customers were reported to be without power as fire crews battled a blaze at a north Philadelphia utility substation. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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Participants march to mark the International Women's Day in Tokyo, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. In Tokyo, some 200 women gathered for a march, protesting against wage disparities, sexual harassment and other challenges that they say still face. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)