Social Issues

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Marc Marquez, of Spain, holds his trophy as he celebrates his win in the Grand Prix of the Americas MotoGP motorcycle race, Sunday, April 23, 2017, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Marc Marquez, of Spain, holds his helmet as he celebrates his win in the Grand Prix of the Americas MotoGP motorcycle race, Sunday, April 23, 2017, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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FILE - In this March 24, 2017, file photo, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott talks to reporters outside the White House in Washington. For months, Abbott stayed silent and Texas' bathroom bill languished, bogged down in the Legislature amid mounting criticism from LGBT activists and business lobbying groups. Now Abbott's all-in, becoming the nation's first governor to fully embrace the issue despite it being mulled by lawmakers in a series of other GOP-led states, and the prospects for Texas blocking its own cities and school districts from embracing transgender-friendly policies governing public restrooms is suddenly bright, even with barely five weeks to go in the session. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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Catching Illegal Voters Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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In this photo taken Thursday, April 20, 2017 Mark Dorosin, managing attorney at the UNC Center For Civil Rights poses for a photo in his office in Chapel Hill, N.C. The center founded at the University of North Carolina by a fearless civil rights attorney to help the poor and disenfranchised is the latest target of the conservatives who are remaking higher education in their image as part of their management of the state this decade. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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In this photo taken Thursday, April 20, 2017, Mark Dorosin, managing attorney at the UNC Center For Civil Rights poses for a photo in his office in Chapel Hill, N.C. The center founded at the University of North Carolina by a fearless civil rights attorney to help the poor and disenfranchised is the latest target of the conservatives who are remaking higher education in their image as part of their management of the state this decade. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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Michigan quarterback Wilton Speight, teaches how to throw the ball to a group of refugees in Rome's Villa Borghese park, Sunday, April 23, 2017. Michigan's football team arrived in Rome this weekend and kicked off the unique trip by meeting with refugees before going to the Vatican for a Papal address and practicing a few times. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

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Michigan quarterback Wilton Speight, center, teaches how to throw the ball to a group of refugees in Rome's Villa Borghese park, Sunday, April 23, 2017. Michigan's football team arrived in Rome this weekend and kicked off the unique trip by meeting with refugees before going to the Vatican for a Papal address and practicing a few times. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino

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Michigan quarterback Wilton Speight, teaches how to throw the ball to a group of refugees in Rome's Villa Borghese park, Sunday, April 23, 2017. Michigan's football team arrived in Rome this weekend and kicked off the unique trip by meeting with refugees before going to the Vatican for a Papal address and practicing a few times. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

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Michigan quarterback Wilton Speight, teaches how to throw the ball to a group of refugees in Rome's Villa Borghese park, Sunday, April 23, 2017. Michigan's football team arrived in Rome this weekend and kicked off the unique trip by meeting with refugees before going to the Vatican for a Papal address and practicing a few times. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

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In this April 11, 2017 photo, Mariela Reyes, a volunteer with Venezuelan Roots, sorts through donated goods for newly arrived Venezuelan immigrants at the "Value Store It" in Doral, Fla. Many of the Venezuelans now seeking food and other assistance in South Florida were once professionals or members of the middle class in their homeland, people who decided they could no longer tolerate increasing misery, crime, food shortages and lack of medical care. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

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FILE - This Sept. 21, 2010 file photo shows an armrest in the interior of the lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. California corrections officials expect to meet a Wednesday, April 26, 2017, deadline to submit revised lethal injection rules to state regulators, trying again with technical changes after the first attempt was rejected in December. While California has long been what one expert calls "a symbolic death penalty state," the nation's most populous state may now be easing back toward allowing executions. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

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FILE - IN this Aug. 16, 2016, file photo a condemned inmate is led out of his east block cell on death row at San Quentin State Prison, in San Quentin, Calif. California corrections officials expect to meet a Wednesday, April 26, 2017, deadline to submit revised lethal injection rules to state regulators, trying again with technical changes after the first attempt was rejected in December. While California has long been what one expert calls "a symbolic death penalty state," the nation's most populous state may now be easing back toward allowing executions. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

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FILE - In this Aug. 16. 2016, file photo, a guard stands watch over the east block of death row at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. California corrections officials expect to meet a Wednesday, April 26, 2017, deadline to submit revised lethal injection rules to state regulators, trying again with technical changes after the first attempt was rejected in December. While California has long been what one expert calls "a symbolic death penalty state," the nation's most populous state may now be easing back toward allowing executions. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

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FILE - This Sept. 21, 2010, file photo shows the interior of the lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. California corrections officials expect to meet a Wednesday, April 26, 2017 deadline to submit revised lethal injection rules to state regulators, trying again with technical changes after the first attempt was rejected in December. While California has long been what one expert calls "a symbolic death penalty state," the nation's most populous state may now be easing back toward allowing executions. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

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FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2015, file photo, Eric Frein is led away by Pennsylvania State Police Troopers at the Pike County Courthouse after his preliminary hearing in Milford, Pa. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Frein, who they said targeted state police because he was trying to foment an uprising against the government. Frein’s lawyers want the jury to sentence him to life without parole. (Butch Comegys/The Times & Tribune via AP, File)

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FILE - This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo, shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. The Vermont Health Department is working to ensure that health care providers across the state are ready for new rules that take effect on July 1, 2017, which regulate how opioid-based painkillers are prescribed to patients who need them, while minimizing the risk of abuse. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

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FILE - In this April 5, 2017 file photo, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of New York takes a question during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Schumer says the stampede that injured 16 people at New York's Penn Station on April 14, 2017, shows a need for better coordination between law enforcement agencies at transportation hubs. Schumer said Sunday there should be a joint command at Penn Station so law enforcers can communicate with each other better. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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FILE - In this Friday, April 14, 2017 file photo, New York City police officers detain a passenger from a disabled New Jersey Transit train who became belligerent and sparked a stampede among passengers leaving the overcrowded station once the train finally arrived at New York's Penn Station. Sen. Charles Schumer says the stampede that injured 16 people at New York's Penn Station just over a week ago shows a need for better coordination between law enforcement agencies at transportation hubs. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)