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Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and other lawmakers head to the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 13, 2017, for a meeting on the revised Republican health care bill which has been under attack from within the party. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine is surrounded by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 13, 2017, after a revised version of the Republican health care bill was announced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. The bill has faced opposition and challenges within the Republican ranks, including by Sen. Collins. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Immigration attorney Rebecca Kitson, left, and ACLU New Mexico spokesman Micah McCoy, right, speak in support of Iraqi refugee Kadhim Al-bumohammed outside of Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in Albuquerque on Thursday, July 13, 2017. Al-bumohammed opted to skip his scheduled federal immigration hearing Thursday where he was expected to be detained, and instead said he is seeking sanctuary at an Albuquerque church. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
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Demonstrators rally in support of Iraqi refugee Kadhim Al-bumohammed outside of Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in Albuquerque on Thursday, July 13, 2017. Al-bumohammed opted to skip his scheduled federal immigration hearing Thursday where he was expected to be detained, and instead said he is seeking sanctuary at an Albuquerque church. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
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Demonstrators rally in support of Iraqi refugee Kadhim Al-bumohammed outside of Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in Albuquerque on Thursday, July 13, 2017. Al-bumohammed opted to skip his scheduled federal immigration hearing Thursday where he was expected to be detained, and instead said he is seeking sanctuary at an Albuquerque church. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
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FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the University of Maryland Police Department, Sean Urbanski. Urbanski, arrested in a fatal stabbing at the University of Maryland that has been under investigation as a possible hate crime has been indicted on a murder charge. (University of Maryland Police Department via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2012 file photo, Rep Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo. speaks in Sedalia, Mo. The House is set to consider a Republican-backed measure that would stop the Pentagon from paying for U.S. service members to undergo gender transition surgeries. Hartzler. the amendment’s autho says she wants to ensure the military’s budget is spent on threats facing the country. Her measure bars money from being spent by the military’s health care system on gender reassignment surgery and hormone therapy. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)
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In this undated file photo provided by the University of Maryland Police Department, Sean Urbanski. Urbanski, arrested in a fatal stabbing at the University of Maryland that has been under investigation as a possible hate crime has been indicted on a murder charge. (University of Maryland Police Department via AP, File)
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FILE - In this March 16, 2017, file photo, Florida State Attorney Aramis Ayala, during a news conference on the steps of the Orange County Courthouse, announces that her office will no longer pursue the death penalty as a sentence in any case brought before the 9th Judicial Circuit of Florida. There was nothing unusual about a June 19 traffic stop in Orlando -- except the driver happened to be Ayala, Florida’s first African-American state attorney, who also happens to be in a legal fight with the governor over the death penalty. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. leaves the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 13, 2017, after announcing the revised version of the Republican health care bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and other lawmakers head to the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 13, 2017, for a meeting on the revised Republican health care bill which has been under attack from within the party, including Sen. Collins. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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In this May 5, 2014, file photo, the Capitol building is seen through the columns on the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Oakland city officials including Mayor Libby Schaaf, right, city administrator Sabrina Landreth, second from right, and police chief Anne Kirkpatrick, at podium, field questions after a federal court hearing, Monday, July 10, 2017, in San Francisco. Civil rights lawyers say a federal judge should consider holding Oakland, California, city and police officials in contempt of court for mishandling an internal affairs investigation of several officers alleged to have sexually exploited an underage prostitute. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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In this Nov. 30, 2016, file photo, Shia LaBeouf arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "Man Down" at ArcLight Cinemas Hollywood. LaBeouf has apologized for a racist tirade against officers who arrested him for public drunkenness over the weekend in Savannah, Ga. The actor wrote in a statement posted on Twitter Wednesday, July 12, 2017, that he has been publicly struggling with addiction for what he was said was "far too long." (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
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The Iraqi government's victory in liberating Mosul from the Islamic State has been tempered with fears that September's vote by the Iraq's Kurdish minority to form their own state could reignite sectarian conflicts among the country's myriad ethnic groups. (Associated Press)
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Illustration on young people in the age of social media information by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Illustration on western conservative values by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Thomas Saenz, president and general counsel with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, commonly known as MALDEF, left, and Bill Lann Lee, senior counsel, Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center, (CREEC), a former Assistant U.S. Attorney General for Civil Rights, announce the filing of a Medi-Cal civil rights complaint in Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. The lawsuit alleges the state is violating Latinos' civil rights by providing low reimbursements to health care providers. It alleges the low payments often mean that those who rely on Medi-Cal, the state's health care program for the poor, are denied timely and quality medical care. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Thomas Saenz, president and general counsel with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, commonly known as MALDEF announces the filing of a Medi-Cal civil rights complaint in Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. The lawsuit alleges the state is violating Latinos' civil rights by providing low reimbursements to health care providers. The plaintiffs argue that California is denying proper health care to about a third of the state's residents by poorly funding the program that covers low-income families, some elderly patients, those with disabilities, foster children and pregnant women. The program also covers those whose incomes are near the federal poverty level. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
