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FILE - In this June 27, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. A federal appeals court will reconsider the legality of the only remaining conviction of a Guantanamo Bay detainee who once served as Osama bin Laden's personal assistant. The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard arguments Tuesday after a divided three-judge appeals panel earlier ruled that the conspiracy case against Ali Hamza al-Bahlul is legally flawed because conspiracy is not a war crime. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
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Chart to accompany Rahn article of Dec. 1, 2015
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Republican presidential candidate, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks after being endorsed by members of Merrimack County law enforcement during a press conference at the Legislative Office Building in Concord, N.H., Monday, Nov. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter) ** FILE **
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Colorado Springs shooting suspect Robert Lewis Dear Jr. (right) — with public defender Dan King — appears via video before Judge Gilbert Martinez for his first court appearance. (Associated Press)
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Philadelphia 76ers' Jahlil Okafor in action during an NBA preseason basketball game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, California Republican (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Tim Scott
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Masked militants speak as they are protesting the killing of Tahir Elci, a prominent lawyer and human rights defender, who faced a prison term on charges of supporting Kurdish rebels, in Istanbul, Turkey, late Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015. Elci was shot on Saturday while he was making a press statement in front of a historical mosques damaged during fightings between Kurdish rebels and security forces.(AP Photo/Cagdas Erdogan)
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Colorado Springs shooting suspect Robert Lewis Dear of North Carolina is seen in undated photos provided by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office. A gunman burst into a Planned Parenthood clinic Friday, Nov. 27, 2015, and opened fire, launching several gunbattles and an hourslong standoff with police as patients and staff took cover. By the time the shooter surrendered, at least three people were killed, including a police officer and at least nine others were wounded, authorities said. (El Paso County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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Police say Robert Lewis Dear, 57, killed three people and wounded nine others at the Planned Parenthood clinic on Nov. 27, before he finally surrendered after a 5-hour-long siege. He is facing first-degree murder charges.. (El Paso County Criminal Justice Center via Associated Press)
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Pedestrians walk past a phalanx of Chicago police officers keeping protesters off Wacker Drive, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015, in Chicago, the day after murder charges were brought against police officer Jason Van Dyke in the killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2015, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Even as Obama tries to make a hard case for sentencing reform, prisoner rehabilitation and confronting racial bias in policing, he has been less clear about the death penalty. Obama has hinted that his support for capital punishment is eroding, but he has refused to discuss what he might call for. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Americans say they personally are more watchful for terrorism this Thanksgiving weekend, a poll finds. At such travel hot spots as Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia, the extra presence of law enforcement is apparent. (associated press)
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Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the leading Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said that allowing politics to seep into the federal judicial system by slow-walking the president's court nominees would "create dangers for a generation to come." (Associated Press)
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This March 16, 2007, file photo shows boxer O'Neil Bell during weigh-in in Paris. Police say the former boxing champion has been shot to death during a robbery in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)
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In this Oct. 20, 2014, frame from dash-cam video provided by the Chicago Police Department, Laquan McDonald, right, walks down the street moments before being shot by Officer Jason Van Dyke in Chicago. Van Dyke, who shot McDonald 16 times, was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015. (Chicago Police Department via AP)
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In this Oct. 20, 2014 frame from dash-cam video provided by the Chicago Police Department, Laquan McDonald, right, walks down the street moments before being shot by officer Jason Van Dyke in Chicago. Van Dyke, who shot McDonald 16 times, was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015. (Chicago Police Department via AP)
