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Attorney Blake Lawrence, left, answers a question about a lawsuit against Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt over public access to official emails, in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. Looking on are Brady Henderson, center, and Ryan Kiesel, both of the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma. A lawsuit filed against Pruitt, President Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, accuses him of violating the state open records law by not providing access to emails and other official documents sought for up to two years. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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This undated photo provided by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Ariz., shows Christopher Estrada. Estrada was arrested Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, in Phoenix and booked on a warrant from police in Alpine, Texas, charging him with tampering with evidence by concealing a human corpse. Police in Alpine say Estrada waived extradition from Phoenix Tuesday, Feb. 7 and will be returned to Alpine to face an evidence tampering charge in the death of Sul Ross State University student Zuzu Verk. (Maricopa County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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In this May 1993 photo provided by the Los Angeles Police Department, on display at a news conference, investigators attend the scene of a deadly fire that struck an apartment building in the Westlake district of Los Angeles, taking the lives of 12 people including the deaths of late-term fetuses. Police Chief Charlie Beck said Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, that two men were arrested Feb. 3 and a woman was already in custody in connection with the fire. One suspect was still being sought. (Los Angeles Police Department via AP)
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This May 1993 photo provided by the Los Angeles Police Department, on display at a news conference, shows investigators at the scene of a deadly fire that struck an apartment building in the Westlake district of Los Angeles. Police Chief Charlie Beck said Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, that two men were arrested Feb. 3, and a woman was already in custody in connection with the fire. One suspect was still being sought. (Los Angeles Police Department via AP)
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This May 1993 photo provided by the Los Angeles Police Department, on display at a news conference, shows investigators at the scene of a deadly fire that struck an apartment building in the Westlake district of Los Angeles. Police Chief Charlie Beck said Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, that two men were arrested Feb. 3, and a woman was already in custody in connection with the fire. One suspect was still being sought. (Los Angeles Police Department via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Los Angeles Police Department shows Ramiro Valerio. Valerio is one of three suspects arrested in a deadly fire that struck an apartment building in the Westlake district of Los Angeles in 1993, taking the lives of 12 people including the deaths of late-term fetuses. Police Chief Charlie Beck says two men were arrested Feb. 3, 2017, and a woman was already in custody in connection with the fire. One suspect was still being sought. (Los Angeles Police Department via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Los Angeles Police Department shows Joseph Monge. Monge is one of three suspects arrested in a deadly fire that struck an apartment building in the Westlake district of Los Angeles in 1993, taking the lives of 12 people including the deaths of late-term fetuses. Police Chief Charlie Beck says two men were arrested Feb. 3, 2017, and a woman was already in custody in connection with the fire. One suspect was still being sought. (Los Angeles Police Department via AP)
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In this arrest photo made available by the Escambia County Sheriff's Office, Fla., shows William "Billy" Boyette, under arrest in June 2015. Authorities in Alabama issued capital murder warrants Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, as the search continued across two states for Boyette and Mary Rice. They are wanted in the deaths of three women and the attempted killing of another. (Escambia County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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FILE - In this April 11, 2015, file photo, Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy speaks with supporters at an event in Bunkerville, Nev. A federal judge in Nevada is considering crucial rulings about what jurors will hear in the trial of six defendants accused of stopping U.S. agents at gunpoint from rounding up cattle near Cliven Bundy's ranch in April 2014. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
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FILE - In this April 18, 2014. file photo, rancher Cliven Bundy, flanked by armed supporters, speaks at a protest camp near Bunkerville, Nev. A federal judge in Nevada is considering crucial rulings about what jurors will hear in the trial of six defendants accused of stopping U.S. agents at gunpoint from rounding up cattle near Cliven Bundy's ranch in April 2014. (John Locher/Las Vegas Review-Journal, via AP, File)
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FILE - In this April 12, 2014, file photo, the Bundy family and their supporters fly the American flag as their cattle is released by the Bureau of Land Management back onto public land outside of Bunkerville, Nev. A federal judge in Nevada is considering crucial rulings about what jurors will hear in the trial of six defendants accused of stopping U.S. agents at gunpoint from rounding up cattle near Cliven Bundy's ranch in April 2014. (Jason Bean/Las Vegas Review-Journal, via AP, File)
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Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, D-McAllen, speaks as the Texas Senate debates a contentious "sanctuary cities" proposal that would compel local police to enforce federal immigration laws and is on track to be the first piece of legislation passed by either chamber this session, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, speaks as the Texas Senate debates a contentious "sanctuary cities" proposal that would compel local police to enforce federal immigration laws and is on track to be the first piece of legislation passed by either chamber this session, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, speaks as the Texas Senate debates a contentious "sanctuary cities" proposal that would compel local police to enforce federal immigration laws and is on track to be the first piece of legislation passed by either chamber this session, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2016, file photo, provided by the Morton County Sheriff's Department, law enforcement and protesters clash near the site of the Dakota Access pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D. A federal judge said Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, pipeline opponents involved in the violent clash with police are unlikely to succeed in a lawsuit alleging excessive force and civil rights violations. (Morton County Sheriff's Department via AP, File)
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Baraah Alawdi, originally from Yemen, poses for photos next to an unidentified artist's mannequin placed outside of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. President Donald Trump's travel ban faced its biggest legal test yet Tuesday as a panel of federal judges prepared to hear arguments from the administration and its opponents about two fundamentally divergent views of the executive branch and the court system. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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A man walks outside of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. President Donald Trump's travel ban faced its biggest legal test yet Tuesday as a panel of federal judges prepared to hear arguments from the administration and its opponents about two fundamentally divergent views of the executive branch and the court system. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Defense attorney Robert Essex argues against a request by prosecutors to bring his client, Charles Hays, to trial for the 1972 nonfatal shooting of a Columbus police officer, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, in Columbus, Ohio. Essex said the state violated Hays rights to a speedy trial by letting almost 45 years pass before moving forward with the case. Essex also said Hays is in poor health and might not be able to stand the rigors of a trial. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)
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Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien, left, explains to a judge why the suspect, Charles Hays, in the 1972 shooting of a Columbus police officer should be brought trial now, at a hearing attended by defense attorney Robert Essex, right, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, in Columbus, Ohio. OBrien said Hays never demanded his right to a speedy trial despite numerous opportunities. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)
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Security personnel stand guard at the site of a suicide attack on the Supreme Court in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. A suicide bomber on Tuesday targeted the Supreme Court building in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing over a dozen people, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
