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Judge Eileen Paley listens to Marcus Ross, attorney for Demetrius Braxton, as he appears on his client's behalf at Franklin County Municipal Court, Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. Columbus police arrested Braxton on a robbery charge Saturday afternoon. Braxton is linked to the 13-year-old Tyre King who was shot fatally by Columbus police after an alleged robbery. Braxton had told The Columbus Dispatch that he was with King on Sept. 14 and that King had a BB gun that looked like a real firearm and wanted to rob someone for money. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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Police work the scene of a shooting late Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, in Tulsa, Okla. A Tulsa police officer shot and killed a black man who ignored repeated requests to put up his hands before reaching into an SUV that was stalled in the middle of a street, the police department said. Terrence Crutcher, 40, died at the hospital where he was taken after he was shot by the officer at around 8 p.m. Friday, police said in a news release. (Joey Johnson/Tulsa World via AP)

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A woman walks in front of an election poster of the Party of Growth in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. Russia's parliamentary election will be held on Sunday. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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FILE - This file frame grab from a video provided by KELOLAND TV shows Russell Bertram, a former police chief in South Dakota. During opening statements in his murder trial Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016, in Burke, S.D., prosecutors said Bertram killed his young fiancee to collect insurance money. He is charged with first-degree murder in the October 2009 death of Leonila Stickney, who was pregnant. (Anna Peters/KELOLAND TV via AP, File)

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Marquise Cromer is seen in an undated photo provided by the Detroit Police Department. Cromer, who who was being sought in the weekend shooting of his own father, has been charged with shooting and wounding a Detroit police sergeant Monday, Sept. 12, 2016. He's due in court Thursday afternoon. Cromer was arraigned Tuesday on assault with intent to murder charges in Sunday's shooting of his 62-year-old father, who was wounded in the feet.

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Conservatives say IRS Commissioner John Koskinen misled Congress and obstructed the investigation into tea party targeting, allowing hundreds of backup tapes containing Lois G. Lerner's missing emails to be deleted even though they were under subpoena by Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on the co-option of the FBI and Justice Department over the Hillary email investigation by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Marc LaQuon Payne was jailed without bond after authorities said he drove a car into two police officers outside a Phoenix gas station on Tuesday. He then scuffled with a third officer who got away. (Maricopa County Sheriff via Associated Press)

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Delaney Robinson speaks while her father, Stacey Robinson, listens at a news conference Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016, in Raleigh, N.C. A magistrate issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for a North Carolina football player accused of sexual battery and assault on Robinson in February. The warrant charges Allen Artis, a 21-year-old junior linebacker From Marietta, Ga., with two misdemeanors and says he had sex with the woman against her will when he "should have reasonably known that the other person was mentally incapacitated and physically helpless." (AP Photo/Emery P. Dalesio)

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Ashland Police Department and Ohio BCI execute a search warrant on a home on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016, in Ashland, Ohio. Authorities say a woman reported being held captive, leading to the arrest of a kidnapping suspect, a murder confession and the discovery of three bodies. Two bodies were found Tuesday at a home in Ashland. The third was found in nearby Madison Township. (Tom E. Puskar/The Times Gazette via AP)

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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is seen in Washington in this Oct. 10, 2008, file photo. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) ** FILE **

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Good Judge Bad Judge Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Hillary Clinton had her attorneys scour her email account, and that was what landed them in potential jeopardy.(Associated Press/File)

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New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez is pushing to bring back the death penalty to her state after a spate of murders that included two police officers. (Associated Press)

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The Nationals' Ryan Zimmerman will not be in attendance when his defamation lawsuit against Al Jazeera America begins. (Associated Press)

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Jason Herring, acting Assistant Director for Congressional Affairs at the FBI, is served a subpoena to provide the full investigative file during the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on classifications and redactions in the FBI's investigative file of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private server. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this June 24, 2016 file photo, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory speaks during a candidate forum in Charlotte, N.C. The NCAA has pulled seven championship events from North Carolina, including opening-weekend men's basketball tournament games, for the coming year due to a state law that some say can lead to discrimination against LGBT people. In a news release Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, the NCAA says the decision by its board of governors came "because of the cumulative actions taken by the state concerning civil rights protections." The law known as HB2 was signed into law by Gov. McCrory earlier this year. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

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The President and the Constitution

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President Obama has said his commuting prisoner sentencing is aimed at addressing disparities in sentences given to minorities. (Associated Press)

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The President and the Constitution: How citizens, congress, the courts and the media influence presidential power cover (September 13, 2016)