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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs pauses as he speaks with reporters on Wednesday, July 21, 2010, at the White House in Washington, about the apparently wrongful firing of a black U.S. Agriculture Department official, Shirley Sherrod, after it appeared she had made racist remarks in unfair and heavily edited video posted on a conservative website. Mr. Gibbs says Mrs. Sherrod is owed an apology for the rush to judgement after the full video indicated those remarks were taken out of context. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack tells reporters he acted in haste in firing Shirley Sherrod, a black U.S. Agriculture Department official, after it appeared she had made racist remarks in unfair and heavily edited video posted on a conservative website, during a news conference at the Department of Agriculture in Washington, Wednesday, July 21, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack tells reporters he acted in haste in regards to Shirley Sherrod, a black U.S. Agriculture Department official, after it appeared she had made racist remarks in unfair and heavily edited video posted on a conservative website, during a news conference at the Department of Agriculture in Washington, Wednesday, July 21, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton listens to a live translation during a signing ceremony for a memorandum of understanding for U.S. support of HIV/AIDS programs in Vietnam, at Ngoc Lam Pagoda in Hanoi, Vietnam, Thursday, July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Julian Abram Wainwright, Pool)
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton attends a signing ceremony for a memorandum of understanding for U.S. support of HIV/AIDS programs in Vietnam, at Ngoc Lam Pagoda in Hanoi, Vietnam, Thursday, July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Julian Abram Wainwright, Pool)
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, and Vietnam Minister of Justice Ha Hung Cuong exchange memorandum of understanding for U.S. support of HIV/AIDS programs at Ngoc Lam Pagoda in Hanoi, Vietnam, Thursday, July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Julian Abram Wainwright, Pool)
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A man presents flowers to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, after she signed a memorandum of understanding for U.S. support of HIV/AIDS programs in Vietnam, at Ngoc Lam Pagoda in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Thursday July, 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Julian Abram Wainwright, Pool)
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This undated photo taken from video and provided by KSAZ-TV FOX 10, shows U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton on the bench in Phoenix, Ariz. Bolton, a former state court judge appointed to the federal bench in 2000 by President Bill Clinton, will decide whether to block Arizona's sweeping new immigration law, which requires police, while enforcing other laws, to question a person's immigration status if officers have a reasonable suspicion that the person is in the country illegally. (AP Photo/KSAZ-TV FOX 10)
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Associated Press ACT OF CONTRITION: Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod, fired Tuesday by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack after a video appearing to show her making racist remarks went viral, got an apology Wednesday from Mr. Vilsack.
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Tighe Barry (right) of Los Angeles and Zaccai Free rally Wednesday outside the Department of Agriculture in support of Mrs. Sherrod, demanding that she be reinstated.
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Associated Press Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio will continue his anti-illegal immigrant raids, regardless of the outcome of the battle over the state's new immigration law.
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This booking photo provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010 shows Lindsay Lohan. The actress returned to jail in handcuffs on Friday after a judge refused to set bail and ordered her to remain in custody for failing a drug test until another hearing nearly a month away. (AP Photo/Los Angeles County Sheriff)
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An Afghan policeman stands guard at the site of a suicide bomibng in Kandahar city, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. A suicide bomber struck hiding explosives in a cart topped with bottles of juice for sale, Afghan officials. Two civilians were injured in the blast. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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Michael Lohan, father of Lindsay Lohan, and attorney Lisa Bloom arrive at the Beverly Hills courthouse, Tuesday, July 20, 2010, where Lindsay was taken into custody to begin serving her jail sentence for a probation violation. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Lindsay Lohan is shown in a court, Tuesday, July 20, 2010, in Beverly Hills, Calif., where she was taken into custody to serve a jail sentence for probation violation. (AP Photo/Al Seib, pool)
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Former President Bill Clinton addresses delegates at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, on Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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Guests in extravagant costumes arrives for the opening ceremony of the 18th Life Ball in front of Vienna's city hall, Austria, on Saturday, July 17, 2010. Life Ball is a charity gala, which organizers hope will raise more than 1 million euros (US$ 1.28 million) for people living with HIV and AIDS. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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** FILE ** A Saturday, June 5, 2004 file photo shows the execution table inside the Metropolitan Transition Center in Baltimore. Maryland is considering becoming one of the few states to allow condemned inmates to choose a clergy member who is not employed by the state to be in the execution chamber when they die. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark, file)
