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"Sister Sera Nade" with the New York City Gay Men's Chorus, sings on the National Mall with the Capitol in the background during the Equality March for Unity and Pride in Washington, Sunday, June 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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In this May 31, 2017 photo, Dennis Kelsch, standing left, a long-time employee of Catholic Community Services, speaks with an unidentified security guard at St. Vincent de Paul dining hall in Salt Lake City. The retiring director of Catholic Community Services homeless services in Salt Lake City said the kind of people that need help has shifted from a population of mostly middle-aged men with alcohol problems to a group that is younger with more women, many addicted to drugs, the Deseret News reported. (Laura Seitz/The Deseret News via AP)
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FILE - This May 28, 2008, file photo shows Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, in Austin, Texas. Texas locks up more people who can't afford to pay tickets and fines than any other state, but that could change if Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signs off on bipartisan bills that would require judges to offer alternatives such as community service, payment plans or waivers. Zaffirini authored her chamber's version of the bill, and said it was "of extreme importance for low-income people" that the changes become law. "If a person can't pay, it spirals from a low-level to high-level problem," said Zaffirini, noting that people often lose their jobs during such jail stints. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck, File)
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The graves of Richard and Mildred Loving are seen in a rural cemetery near their former home in Caroline County, Virginia, Wednesday, June 7, 2017. Richard Loving, a white man, and his wife Mildred, a black woman, challenged Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage and ultimately won their case at the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967. Monday, June 12, 2017 marks 50 years since the Supreme Court issued that opinion, which overturned laws against interracial marriage in 16 states. (AP Photo/Jessica Gresko)
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This Jan. 26, 1965 file photo shows Mildred Loving and her husband Richard P Loving. Fifty years after Mildred and Richard Loving’s landmark legal challenge shattered the laws against interracial marriage in the U.S., some couples of different races still talk of facing discrimination, disapproval and sometimes outright hostility from their fellow Americans. (AP Photo)
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Shawn Sullivan, left, budget director for Gov. Sam Brownback, talks with lobbyist Matt Hickam, right, whose clients include health insurance companies that help the state run its Medicaid coverage for needy residents, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan., on Saturday, June 10, 2017. Legislators are trying to wrap up work on budget legislation. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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Kansas state Sen. Ed Berger, left, R-Hutchinson, confers with Sen. Rick Wilborn, R-McPherson, before a Senate debate on budget legislation, Saturday, June 10, 2017, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Lawmakers are moving to give pay raises to many state employees as they wrap up work on budget legislation (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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Tapwrit, left, and Irish War Cry race to the finish during the 149th running of the Belmont Stakes horse race, Saturday, June 10, 2017, in Elmont, N.Y. Tapwrit won the race. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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A crowd gathers after a man was fatally shot, Friday, June 9, 2017 in Tulsa, Okla. Law officers in Tulsa fatally shot a man while trying to pick him up for a mental health issue, triggering a street protest and a corresponding show of force by police in riot gear. (Cory Young/Tulsa World via AP)
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A man walks past as law enforcement officials investigate an officer-involved shooting near 46th Street North and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard Friday, June 9, 2017 in Tulsa, Okla. Law officers in Tulsa fatally shot a man while trying to pick him up for a mental health issue, triggering a street protest and a corresponding show of force by police in riot gear. (Cory Young/Tulsa World via AP)
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Tulsa resident Angie Pitts, right, tries to calm down others as law enforcement officials investigate near 46th Street North and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Friday, June 9, 2017 in Tulsa, Okla. Law officers in Tulsa fatally shot a man while trying to pick him up for a mental health issue, triggering a street protest and a corresponding show of force by police in riot gear. (Cory Young/Tulsa World via AP)
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In this May 21, 2017, photo, cars are parked outside a Community Health Nursing clinic in Tonopah, Nev., where no other family planning services are available for uninsured residents within 100 miles. Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a bill on Thursday that will backfill hundreds of thousands of federal grant dollars to pay nurses and provide birth control that the state lost after a scathing report described state-run reproductive health clinics in disarray. (AP Photo/Alison Noon)
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In this May 21, 2017, photo, a car is parked near a Community Health Nursing clinic in Tonopah, Nev., where no other family planning services are available for uninsured residents within 100 miles. Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a bill on Thursday that will backfill hundreds of thousands of federal grant dollars to pay nurses and provide birth control that the state lost after a scathing report described state-run reproductive health clinics in disarray. (AP Photo/Alison Noon)
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Demonstrators gathered to protest against Islamic law, foreground, stand across from counter demonstrators Saturday, June 10, 2017, in New York. In more than two dozen cities across the United States, the group organizing the rallies, ACT for America, is speaking out against Shariah law, saying it is incompatible with Western democracy. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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Cathy Camper, of Tacoma, Wash. wears a stars-and-stripes cowboy hat as she protests against Islamic law at a rally Saturday, June 10, 2017, in Seattle, as counter-protesters demonstrate across the street. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Cathy Camper, of Tacoma, Wash. wears a stars-and-stripes cowboy hat as she protests against Islamic law and reacts to counter-protesters across the street at a rally Saturday, June 10, 2017, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Cathy Camper, of Tacoma, Wash. wears a stars-and-stripes cowboy hat as she protests against Islamic law at a rally Saturday, June 10, 2017, in Seattle, as counter-protesters demonstrate across the street. In more than two dozen cities across the United States, the group organizing the rallies, ACT for America, is speaking out against Shariah law, saying it is incompatible with Western democracy and the freedoms it affords. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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People demonstrate in Parliament Square against the possible Conservative and DUP (Democratic Unionist Party) coalition government following the Britain's general election result, in London, Saturday June 10, 2017. Beleaguered British Prime Minister Theresa May was working to fill out the ranks of her minority government Saturday after an election that proved disastrous for her Conservative Party and complicating for Britain's exit from the European Union. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)
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In this Wednesday, June 7, 2017 photo, Atlanta Dream guard Layshia Clarendon (23) toward the bench during an WNBA basketball game against the New York Liberty in New York. Clarendon penned an essay in April about a sexual assault she suffered when she was younger. She hoped it would be both therapeutic as well as offer encouragement to others to speak up. She's been overwhelmed by the positive response she's gotten so far. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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Bill Cosby walks from the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pa., Friday, June 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
