Social Issues

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Bill Cosby, left, walks alongside spokesman Andrew Wyatt at the end of a day of jury deliberations in his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, June 13, 2017. The jury will reconvene for deliberations Wednesday morning. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Bill Cosby leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial, Tuesday, June 13, 2017, in Norristown, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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Bill Cosby leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial Tuesday, June 13, 2017, in Norristown, Pa.. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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Bill Cosby exits the Montgomery County Courthouse with Andrew Wyatt, right, during Cosby's sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, June 13, 2017. (David Maialetti/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, Pool)

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Bill Cosby leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial Tuesday, June 13, 2017, in Norristown, Pa.. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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Bill Cosby leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial, Tuesday, June 13, 2017, in Norristown, Pa. The jury has wrapped up a second day of deliberations without reaching a verdict. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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Bill Cosby leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial, Tuesday, June 13, 2017, in Norristown, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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Republican Shelley Moore Capito is looking for a $45 billion commitment to ensure treatment for opioid addicts in her hard-hit state of West Virginia. (Associated Press)

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In this Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013 file photo, Alan Leafman, center, president of Health Insurance Express, Inc., helps Raquel Bernal, right, and her husband John Bernal, left, both of Apache Junction, Ariz., navigate the nation's new health care insurance system online at the Health Insurance Express store in Mesa, Ariz. Two insurance companies offering individual health plans on federal exchanges in Arizona have filed paperwork to continue selling coverage in 2018, a move which will likely prevent a repeat of last year's crisis that saw one county briefly without a provider. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, right, House Speaker Tom Leonard, center, and Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof, left, speak to reporters after announcing a budget and pension deal on Tuesday, June 13, 2017, at the Capitol in Lansing, Mich. The Republicans had been at odds over trying to close the pension system to new hires, and the impasse had prolonged budget work. (AP Photo/David Eggert)

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FILE – In this March 28, 2012, file photo, Brad Hartzell, left, of Somers Point, N.J., sells lottery tickets to Lisa Lysinger, of Ocean City, N.J., at the A Few Bucks store in Somers Point, N.J. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is hoping the New Jersey Lottery is the ticket to shoring up the state's ever-growing pension obligations for public employees, with legislation introduced in June 2017 as part of the Republican governor's push to implement his plan to make the lottery property of the pension system for 30 years. (Dale Gerhard/The Press of Atlantic City via AP, File)

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FILE – In this Feb. 25, 2015, file photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie addresses a town hall meeting in Moorestown, N.J. Christie is hoping the New Jersey Lottery is the ticket to shoring up the state's ever-growing pension obligations for public employees, with legislation introduced in June 2017 as part of the Republican governor's push to implement his plan to make the lottery property of the pension system for 30 years. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

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House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., joined by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., chair of the Republican Conference, meets with reporters at Republican National Committee Headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 13, 2017, to discuss health care for veterans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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The University of Maryland is setting up a "rapid-response team" that will respond to any report of "hate bias" on campus. (YouTube, University of Maryland)

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In this Oct. 18, 2016, file photo, a ship's propeller is displayed in front of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy's Museum at the school's campus in Kings Point, N.Y. (AP Photo/Frank Eltman, File)

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FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2014 file photo, Chase Iron Eyes, an attorney and American Indian activist on the Standing Rock Reservation, is seen in Fort Yates, N.D. Iron Eyes, accused of inciting a riot during protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, says he has no qualms about taking the case to trial, even though he could face more than five years in prison if convicted. Trial has been scheduled early next year in North Dakota. He pleaded not guilty in March to the felony charge and also misdemeanor criminal trespass. (AP Photo/Kevin Cederstrom, File)