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Rep. Dan Huberty, R-Houston, talks with fellow law makers on the house floor Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Austin, Texas. Huberty, Chair of the House Public Education Committee, is the sponsor of House Bill 21 which would put money into the school system. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Former Utah State University Linebacker Torrey Green looks on during an evidentiary hearing, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Logan, Utah. Judge Brian Cannell ruled Wednesday that there's enough evidence against the former Utah State University football player, accused of sexually assaulting seven women, for the case to go to trial. (Tim Carpenter/Utah Statesman via AP, Pool)
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In this April 14, 2017 photo, Holly Hyzinski, of Orefield, Pa., who is slated to work for Dorney Park's Wildwater Kingdom this summer in Allentown, Pa., poses with a shirt. Holly has been a part of The Center for Independent Living in the Lehigh Valley's employment camp for folks with disabilities. (Chris Shipley/The Morning Call via AP)
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In this April 14, 2017 photo, Holly Hyzinski, of Orefield, Pa., who is slated to work for Dorney Park's Wildwater Kingdom this summer in Allentown, Pa., poses next to some of her gear. Holly has been a part of The Center for Independent Living in the Lehigh Valley's employment camp for folks with disabilities. (Chris Shipley/The Morning Call via AP)
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In this April 14, 2017 photo, Holly Hyzinski, left, who is slated to work at Dorney Park's Wild Water Kingdom poses for a photo with her mom, Diane Hyzinski in Orefield, Pa. Real World Lehigh Valley, a 6-week summer program run by the Center for Independent Living's School-2-Life group, aims to help other families discover what the Hyzinskis did — the transition from school and adulthood for those with disabilities doesn't need to be so intimidating. (Chris Shipley/The Morning Call via AP)
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FILE -- In this Feb. 26, 2016, file photo, the Senate is seen from the public gallery during debate on a supplemental budget proposal in Olympia, Wash. When rejecting requests for everything from lawmakers' daily calendars to emails to disciplinary reports, legislative attorneys routinely cite language quietly added more than two decades ago to Washington's public records law. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte, File)
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Activist with the Color of Change protest Bill O'Reilly outside the News Corp. headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, Wednesday, April 19, 2017. O'Reilly has lost his job at Fox News Channel after allegations that he sexually harassed women. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Activist Judah Friedlander holds his "Activist Barbie" with a photo of Bill O'Reilly, right, next to politician Bull Connor, who strongly opposed activities of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, in front of the News Corp. headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, Wednesday, April 19, 2017. O'Reilly has lost his job at Fox News Channel after allegations that he sexually harassed women. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Activist Judah Friedlander holds his "Activist Barbie" with a photo of Bill O'Reilly, right, next to politician Bull Connor, who strongly opposed activities of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, in front of the News Corp. headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, Wednesday, April 19, 2017. O'Reilly has lost his job at Fox News Channel after allegations that he sexually harassed women. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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FILE - This April 14, 2017, file photo provided by Sherry Simon shows Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen taking part of an anti-death penalty demonstration outside the Governor's Mansion in Little Rock, Ark. Griffen, who participated in the demonstration after issuing an order blocking the state's executions is defending the move, saying his ruling was guided by property law and not his views on capital punishment. The state Supreme Court on Monday, April 17 lifted Griffen's order and prohibited the judge from considering any death penalty-related cases. (Sherry Simon via AP, File)
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FILE - This March 9, 2012, file photo shows Republican state senator Frank Artiles, R-Miami, asking a questions about a pip insurance bill during house session in Tallahassee, Fla. Artiles, a Republican state senator, is expected to apologize publicly Wednesday April 19, 2017, for using racial slurs and obscene insults in a private after-hours conversation with African-American colleagues. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon, File)
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Alex Jones, a right-wing radio host and conspiracy theorist, arrives for a child custody trial at the Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday, April 19, 2017. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP) ** FILE **
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This March 12, 2017, photo shows a statue of a Confederate soldier on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss. Another statue on campus honors James Meredith, an African-American student whose enrollment in 1962 sparked riots. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz) ** FILE **
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This March 12, 2017 photo shows the doors of the Lyceum, a building on the University of Mississippi campus in Oxford, Miss. A hole over the door on the left is the result of a bullet that hit the building when riots erupted on campus in 1962 over the enrollment of the university's first African-American student. The hole, which hollowed out over time, has been preserved by the university as a reminder of the episode. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz)
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This March 12, 2017 photo shows a statue of James Meredith on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss., walking through a structure engraved with the words opportunity, courage, perseverance and knowledge. Meredith was the first African-American student to enroll at the university and riots erupted on campus in 1962 over his enrollment. The statue was in the news again in 2014 when a noose was placed on it. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz)
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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY APRIL 23 AND THEREAFTER - In a Wednesday, April 5, 2017 photo, Joycelyn Rhymer, 34, sweeps in a greenhouses at Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health Texas in Victoria, Texas. Devereux Gardens grow their own flowers, vegetables and fruit trees. The vocational training program helps those with severe mental and development disabilities learn vocational and social skills in a therapeutic environment. (Ana Ramirez/The Victoria Advocate via AP)
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Alex Jones, a well-known Austin-based broadcaster and provocateur, arrives for a child custody trial at the Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday April 19, 2017. Kelly Jones is seeking sole or joint custody of the couples' children, ages 14, 12 and 9. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)
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FILE -- In this Sunday, April 16, 2017 file photo, Aya Hijazi, center, a dual U.S.-Egyptian citizen, is acquitted by an Egyptian court after nearly three years of detention over accusations related to running a foundation dedicated to helping street children, in Cairo, Egypt. Hijazi's lawyer, Taher Abol Nasr, said she was released from prison late Tuesday, April 18, 2017, two days after a court acquitted her of charges of child abuse that were widely dismissed as bogus by human rights groups and U.S. officials. (AP Photo/Mohamed el Raai, File)
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Gabor Harangozo of the oppositional Hungarian Socialist Party MSZP participates in the general debate of deputies regarding the proposed legislation on the transparency of foreign-funded NGOs during the plenary session of the parliament in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, April 19, 2017. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)
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Anti-death penalty supporter Randy Gardner, left, wipes away a tear moments after Abraham Bonowitz, left, read on his phone the 11:45pm Supreme Court decision to halt the execution in their taped off "protest corral" outside the Varner Unit late Monday, April 17, 2017 near Varner, Ark. (Stephen B. Thornton /The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP)
