Social Issues

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Martin Brinkley, dean of the UNC School of Law, speaks during a forum in Chapel Hill, N.C., Thursday, May 11, 2017, regarding the UNC Center for Civil Rights ability to represent poor and minority clients in court. The hearing comes just days ahead of the UNC Board of Governors receiving a study and possibly voting to take away that ability from the center. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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A crowded room of concerned citizens listen during a public forum in Chapel Hill, N.C., Thursday, May 11, 2017, regarding the UNC Center for Civil Rights ability to represent poor and minority clients in court. The hearing comes just days ahead of the UNC Board of Governors receiving a study and possibly voting to take away that ability from the center. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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Theodore M. Shaw, director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights, speaks during a public forum in Chapel Hill, N.C., Thursday, May 11, 2017, regarding the center's ability to represent poor and minority clients in court. The hearing comes just days ahead of the UNC Board of Governors receiving a study and possibly voting to take away that ability from the center. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 15, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Itza Ayala poses for a photo at a park in Houston on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. When school administrators didn't investigate her 15-year-old daughter's alleged sexual assault by another student, she says, her family turned to the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights. The office has struggled to keep up with an increase in complaints against school districts. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 15, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Itza Ayala poses for a photo at a park in Houston on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. When school administrators didn't investigate her 15-year-old daughter's alleged sexual assault by another student, she says, her family turned to the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights. The office has struggled to keep up with an increase in complaints against school districts. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 15, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Itza Ayala poses for a photo at a park in Houston on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. When school administrators didn't investigate her 15-year-old daughter's alleged sexual assault by another student, she says, her family turned to the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights. The office has struggled to keep up with an increase in complaints against school districts. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 15, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Itza Ayala poses for a photo at a park in Houston on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. When school administrators didn't investigate her 15-year-old daughter's alleged sexual assault by another student, she says, her family turned to the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights. The office has struggled to keep up with an increase in complaints against school districts. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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FILE - This Oct. 24, 2016, file photo, shows the HealthCare.gov 2017 website home page on display, in Washington. Early moves by insurers in some states suggest another round of higher prices and limited choices will greet health insurance shoppers in markets around the country when they start searching for next year’s coverage on the Affordable Care Act’s public insurance exchanges. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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Wisconsin budget committee co-chairs Rep. John Nygren and Sen. Alberta Darling speak at a news conference where they say in the face of an impasse they are open to pulling transportation funding out of the state budget to pass it separately on Thursday, May 11, 2017, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

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FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2017, file photo, Euless Trinity's Mack Beggs, top, drives Morton Ranch's Chelsea Sanchez against the mat during the girls Class 6A 110-pound championship final at the UIL state wrestling championships in Cypress, Texas. When Texas transgender wrestler Mack Beggs won a girls’ state championship, his victory drew jeers and complaints that his steroid therapy treatment had given him an unfair advantage against girls who risked injury just by getting on the mat with him, Now state lawmakers are pushing a bill that could deny Beggs, a Dallas area-junior, a chance to defend his title. (Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)

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FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2017, file photo, Euless Trinity's Mack Beggs is announced as the winner of a semifinal match after Beggs pinned Grand Prairie's Kailyn Clay during the finals of the UIL Region 2-6A wrestling tournament at Allen High School in Allen, Texas. When Texas transgender wrestler Mack Beggs won a girls’ state championship, his victory drew jeers and complaints that his steroid therapy treatment had given him an unfair advantage against girls who risked injury just by getting on the mat with him, Now state lawmakers are pushing a bill that could deny Beggs, a Dallas area-junior, a chance to defend his title. (Nathan Hunsinger/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File)

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FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2017, file photo, Euless Trinity's Mack Beggs is consoled by coach Travis Clark after Beggs' opponent forfeited during the finals of the UIL Region 2-6A wrestling tournament at Allen High School in Allen, Texas. When Texas transgender wrestler Mack Beggs won a girls’ state championship, his victory drew jeers and complaints that his steroid therapy treatment had given him an unfair advantage against girls who risked injury just by getting on the mat with him, Now state lawmakers are pushing a bill that could deny Beggs, a Dallas area-junior, a chance to defend his title. (Nathan Hunsinger/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File)

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014, file photo, a pedestrian walks past a sign for Aetna Inc., at the company headquarters in Hartford, Conn. While Republicans rewrite the Affordable Care Act in Washington, the immediate future of the law has grown hazier with the nation's third-largest health insurer Aetna saying that it will completely divorce itself from state-based insurance exchanges. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

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Arizona state Minority Leader Rebecca Rios, right, D-Phoenix, talks with Rep. Rosanna Gabaldon, D-Sahuarita, during floor debate at the capitol Wednesday, May 10, 2017, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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Arizona state Minority Leader Rebecca Rios, right, D-Phoenix, watches the bills board with Arizona state Rep. Randall Friese, left, D-Tucson, during floor debate at the capitol Wednesday, May 10, 2017, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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Illustration on Barack Obama's receipt of the "Profiles in Courage' award by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Kansas state Sen. Caryn Tyson, R-Parker, makes a point during negotiations between senators and House members over a proposal to raise income taxes to fix the state budget, Wednesday, May 10, 2017, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Sitting to her right is Sen. Dan Kerschen, R-Garden Plain. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

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U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, left, Maine Gov. Paul LePage, center, and Kellyanne Conway, an advisor to President Trump, conduct a meeting to discuss the state's efforts to fight the opioid epidemic, Wednesday, May 10, 2017, at the State House in Augusta, Maine. The meeting includes relatives of those struggling with addiction as well as representatives from the recovery community, drug treatment specialists and law enforcement officials. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows inmate Robert James Campbell. Campbell, on Texas death row for nearly 25 years for the abduction, rape and slaying of a 20-year-old Houston bank teller is getting his sentence reduced to life in prison after state attorneys told a federal court Wednesday, May 10, 2017, they agreed with the inmate's lawyers that he's mentally impaired, meaning he's ineligible for execution under U.S. Supreme Court rulings. Campbell, 44, will be resentenced to life and be eligible for parole because Texas did not yet have life without parole when he was arrested for the 1991 slaying of Alejandra Rendon. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)