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Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, shake hands with U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts as they leave St. Mathews Cathedral after the Red Mass in Washington on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. The Supreme Court's new term starts Monday, Oct. 3. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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A police officer, left, escorts Zaur Dadaev, one of five suspects held in the killing of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, is escorted in a court in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. A Moscow military court is beginning to hear the case of five people accused of involvement in the killing of Nemtsov in February 2015. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
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A copy of the book "My Own Words,” by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is photographed in Washington, Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. Ginsburg is riding the wave of her cultural rock-stardom, releasing a compilation of her writings, from an editorial she wrote for her high school newspaper to summaries of some of her spiciest dissenting opinions. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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File- This Sept. 22, 2016, file photo shows Attorney General Loretta Lynch responding to a question during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington. Lynch is announcing Justice Department grants Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, to help police departments across the country hire new officers. The $119 million in funding is being announced in Dallas, site of a sniper ambush in July that left five officers dead, at the start of National Community Policing Week. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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Field office: Patrick Hanley retired on disability after being wounded in Iraq, only to face co-worker discrimination when he entered the federal workforce.
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Supporters of the peace accord signed between the Colombian government and rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, follow on a giant screen the results of a referendum to decide whether or not to support the deal in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Colombia's peace deal with leftist rebels was on the verge of collapsing in a national referendum Sunday, with those opposing the deal leading by a razor-thin margin with almost all votes counted.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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Illustration on corruption in the FBI by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Los Angeles Police officers stop their patrol vehicle to speak to neighbors and members of the community gathered around a makeshift memorial outside a residence on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Officers shot and killed Carnell Snell Jr. in south Los Angeles on Saturday at the end of a car chase, sparking a protest by several dozen people angered by another fatal police shooting of a black man. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Langlade County Sheriff's Deputy D.J. Eldridge gathers with volunteers Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016, northeast of Antigo, Wisc., where a boy had become lost in a corn field late Saturday. The youngster was found safe and unharmed Sunday after a huge turnout of volunteers, fire departments and law enforcement in the area. (Fred Berner/Antigo Daily Journal via AP)
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In this Sept. 25, 2016 photo, Dan Dolgin, left, and Mark Justh examine seeds from hemp plants on their JD Farms in Eaton, N.Y. JD Farms in central New York harvested the state’s first legal hemp this fall under a university research partnership. (AP Photo/Mary Esch)
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In this Sept. 27, 2016, photo, Abraham Chaparro, holds a photograph of his murdered stepson, Miguel Garcia-Moran, outside his home in Brentwood, N.Y. The remains of Garcia-Moran, who was reported missing in February, were found in September. Multiple teenagers from the same Long Island high school have been found dead and while police suspect all the deaths are related to gang violence, they are releasing few details. (AP Photo/Claudia Torrens)
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FILE - In this May 25, 2016 file photo, Illinois Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch, D-Westchester, speaks to lawmakers at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill. States have begun passing laws dealing with how online accounts can be accessed after death. Until now, Google, Facebook and other companies have said a federal privacy law bars them from releasing information unless they have permission from the account owner even if that person is dead. Welch, a suburban Chicago lawmaker, sponsored Illinois' measure on the topic. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
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Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry watches a shot while warming up before a preseason NBA basketball game against the Toronto Raptors in Vancouver, British Columbia, Saturday Oct. 1, 2016. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)
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As his family follows behind, pallbearers carry the casket of New York Fire Department Battalion Chief Michael Fahy at Annunciation Church in Yonkers, N.Y., on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. Fahy died while fighting a fire at suspected marijuana grow house in the Bronx borough of New York on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2016. (Frank Becerra Jr./The Journal News via AP)
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FILE - In this Oct. 23, 1992 file photo, forensic anthropologist Claudia Bernard, from Argentina, brushes dirt from human remains, in El Mozote, El Salvador. A human rights advocate said Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016 that Judge Jorge Guzman Urquilla has granted reopening a probe into the El Mozote massacre. A postwar truth commission concluded that the army massacred at least 500 people in El Mozote and surrounding villages in three days in December 1981. Victims’ rights advocates put the number closer to 1,000. (AP Photo/Michael Stravato, File)
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Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Chief Justice Roger Gregory, gestures during an interview in his office in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016. Gregory oversees the powerful court which hears appeals from Virginia, Maryland West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Brad Nelson, right, talks with his father, David Nelson, left, and others during his retirement party Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016, at the Olmsted County Government Center in Rochester, Minn. Brad retired after 29 years with the Sheriff's Office. (Andrew Link /The Rochester Post-Bulletin via AP)
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This photo provided by Beach Haven Police Department shows Stephen Wojciehowski. Police say Wojciehowski, who wore a bikini fashioned out of see-through plastic wrap on a New Jersey beach is facing a criminal charge. He was arrested Monday, Sept. 26, 2016 and was released pending further court proceedings. (Beach Haven Police Department via AP)
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FILE - This June 27, 2011 file photo shows Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky, who drew criticism for sentencing former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner to only six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. California Gov. Jerry Brown has approved two bills that emerged after a former Stanford University swimmer was sentenced to six months in jail for sexually assaulting a woman passed out near a trash bin. The Democratic governor said Friday, Sept. 30, 2016, that he signed one bill requiring state prison time for someone convicted of assaulting an unconscious victim instead of a shorter jail sentence like the one Brock Turner received. (Jason Doiy/The Recorder via AP, File) /The Recorder via AP)
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Rev. Michael Johnson leads a funeral processional Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016 at Mt. Moriah Cemetery in Deadwood S.D. for the remains of a unknown pioneer from the 1800's, who's body was found in 2012. (Chris Huber/Rapid City Journal via AP)
