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Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez sits at the defense table during his double murder trial of at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, Thursday, March 2, 2017. Hernandez is charged in the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado who he encountered in a Boston nightclub. The former NFL football player already is serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (Keith Bedford/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)

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Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez sits at the defense table during his double murder trial at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, Thursday, March 2, 2017. Hernandez is charged in the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado who he encountered in a Boston nightclub. The former NFL football player already is serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (Keith Bedford/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)

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FILE - This undated file handout photo provided by the Waller County Sheriff's Office shows Sandra Bland. The first sweeping police reforms proposed in Texas following Bland's 2015 death in a rural jail after a confrontational traffic stop would revamp racial profiling laws and officer training. But the "Sandra Bland Act" filed Thursday, March 2, 2017, faces a difficult road in the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature. One police association has already criticized the bill as misguided. (Waller County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

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FILE- In this Sept. 21, 2016 file photo, school district attorney Alan Rupe, left, presents his arguments in a school funding case at the Kansas Supreme Court in Topeka, Kan. Kansas' highest court on Thursday, March 2, 2017, ordered the state to increase its spending on public schools, which could further complicate the state's dire budget problems and increase pressure to undo large tax cuts championed by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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Steve Settingsgaard, right, head of North American security for Caterpillar, Inc., stands outside of the company's world headquarters, Thursday, March 2, 2017, in Peoria, Ill., talking with two law enforcement officials. Federal law enforcement officials executed a search warrant at three Caterpillar facilities in central Illinois on Thursday. (David Zalaznik/Journal Star via AP)

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Steve Settingsgaard, head of North American security for Caterpillar Inc., walks past the entrance to the company's world headquarters on Thursday, March 2, 2017, in Peoria, Ill. Federal law enforcement officials executed a search warrant at three Caterpillar facilities in central Illinois on Thursday. (Matt Dayhoff/Journal Star via AP)

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A placard identifies an unmarked vehicle parked in front of the world headquarters of Caterpillar Inc. on Thursday, March 2, 2017 in Peoria, Ill. Federal law enforcement officials executed a search warrant at three Caterpillar facilities in central Illinois on Thursday. (Matt Dayhoff/Journal Star via AP)

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Federal law enforcement agents enter the headquarters of Caterpillar, Inc., in Peoria, Ill., on Thursday, March 2, 2017, after a search warrant was executed at three Caterpillar facilities in central Illinois. (David Zalaznik/Journal Star via AP)

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, March 2, 2017. Sessions said he will recuse himself from a federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 White House election. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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This photo provided by Via Christi Health shows convenience store clerk Riley Juel recuperating at the hospital in Wichita, Kan., Thursday, March 2, 2017, a day after being shot by a fugitive on a multi-state crime spree. Alex Deaton was arrested Wednesday near Wilson, Kan., suspected of killing two people in Mississippi and shooting another in New Mexico and Juel in Kansas before he was captured. (Maria Loving/Via Christi Health via AP)

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Sharona Durry watches as the Jewish Federation holds a 'Stand Against Hate' rally at Independence Hall, to protest the recent vandalism of Jewish cemeteries as well as hate crimes, Thursday, March 2, 2017, in Philadelphia. (David Swanson /The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

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Gov. Tom Wolf wears a yarmulke after speaking at the Jewish Federation as they hold a 'Stand Against Hate' rally at Independence Hall to protest the recent vandalism of Jewish cemeteries as well as hate crimes, Thursday March 2, 2017. (David Swanson /The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

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Rev. Ruth Santana-Grace, center, stands with other religious leaders as the Jewish Federation holds a 'Stand Against Hate' rally at Independence Hall, to protest the recent vandalism of Jewish cemeteries as well as hate crimes, Thursday, March 2, 2017, in Philadelphia. (David Swanson /The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

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Dallas immigration attorney Fatma Marouf holds up a bond order in front of the federal building after leaving immigration court in Dallas, Thursday, March 2, 2017, from a federal immigration judge for Sara Beltran Hernandez, a Salvadoran woman seeking asylum. An immigration judge has granted bond to Hernandez so she can leave a detention facility to seek treatment for a brain tumor. (AP Photo/Claudia Lauer)

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions pauses during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, March 2, 2017. Sessions said he will recuse himself from a federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 White House election. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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In this Jan. 10, 2017 file photo, then-Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sessions twice spoke with the Russian envoy to the U.S. during the 2016 presidential campaign, a fact that seemingly contradicts sworn statements he made to Congress during his confirmation hearings. The revelation prompted calls for Sessions to resign or recuse himself from a probe into Trump campaign contacts with Russia. Some Democrats asked for an investigation into whether the nation’s top law enforcement official committed perjury. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) **FILE**

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FILE - This Nov. 1997 file photo, rancher Wayne Hage, a longtime Sagebrush Rebellion figure who died in 2006, is shown in the area where federal agents seized 100 head of his cattle in 1991, in Meadow Canyon near Tonopah, Nev. Hage's son Wayne N. Hage has been ordered to pay $587,000 and remove any livestock he has on federal lands by the end of the month. Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro in Las Vegas says he also has to show by mid-April that he has complied. (Mark Waite/Elko Daily Free Press via AP, File)

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Former Baylor football player Sam Ukwuachu leaves the 10th Court of Appeals following arguments Wednesday, March, 1, 2017, in Waco, Texas. Ukwuachu is waiting on a ruling for a new trial after his conviction in 2015 for the rape of a woman. (Jerry Larson/Waco Tribune Herald via AP)

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FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2017 file photo, then-Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sessions twice spoke with the Russian envoy to the U.S. during the 2016 presidential campaign, a fact that seemingly contradicts sworn statements he made to Congress during his confirmation hearings. The revelation prompted calls for Sessions to resign or recuse himself from a probe into Trump campaign contacts with Russia. Some Democrats asked for an investigation into whether the nation’s top law enforcement official committed perjury. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stands with International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano, at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, March 2, 2017, (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)