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Pro-life activists converge in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, during the annual March for Life. Thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators gathered in Washington for an annual march to protest the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 decision that declared a constitutional right to abortion. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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FILE - In this March 15, 2017, file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks to law enforcement officers in Richmond, Va. Sessions favors decades-old drug and crime-fighting strategies, even as some people involved in criminal justice during that time have come to believe they went too far, for too long. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
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FILE - In this March 15, 2017, file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks to law enforcement officers in Richmond, Va. Sessions favors decades-old drug and crime-fighting strategies, even as some people involved in criminal justice during that time have come to believe they went too far, for too long. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
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A Syrian refugee girl holds her brother as she walks at an informal refugee camp, at Al-Marj town in Bekaa valley, east Lebanon Lebanon, Saturday, April 8, 2017. For the millions of Syrian refugees scattered across camps and illegal settlements across the region, the chemical attack on a town in northern Syria and subsequent U.S. strike was a rare moment when the world briefly turned its attention to Syria, before turning away again. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., leaves the chamber after the confirmation vote for President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 7, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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In this March 18, 2017 photo, Danny Dwyer, center, takes part in a training run with with fellow charity runners in Boston. Dwyer, 50, plans to run in the April 17, Boston Marathon. It's the latest step away from his former battles with drug addiction, job loss and four years he spent homeless living under a bridge. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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The number of true “swing” districts has dropped more than 50 percent compared to 20 years ago, from 164 seats down to just 72 after the 2016 election, said the Cook Political Report. ut of the 92 swing districts that “vanished,” more than 80 percent of them disappeared because voters moved around, in a process demographers call “self-sorting” — not because lawmakers drew themselves safer districts, the analysis said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the nation's first black woman to head the Justice Department, is applauded after speaking at a conference on policy and blacks at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Cambridge, Mass. The 57-year-old North Carolina native graduated from Harvard College in 1981 and from Harvard Law School in 1984. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the nation's first black woman to head the Justice Department, waves as she arrives to speak at a conference on policy and blacks at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Cambridge, Mass. The 57-year-old North Carolina native graduated from Harvard College in 1981 and from Harvard Law School in 1984. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, bottom center, the nation's first black woman to head the Justice Department, poses with students after speaking at a conference on policy and blacks at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Cambridge, Mass. The 57-year-old North Carolina native graduated from Harvard College in 1981 and from Harvard Law School in 1984. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the nation's first black woman to head the Justice Department, listens during a conference on policy and blacks at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass., on April 7, 2017. The 57-year-old North Carolina native graduated from Harvard College in 1981 and from Harvard Law School in 1984. (Associated Press)
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Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the nation's first black woman to head the Justice Department, waves as she arrives to speak at a conference on policy and blacks at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Cambridge, Mass. The 57-year-old North Carolina native graduated from Harvard College in 1981 and from Harvard Law School in 1984. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, second from right, is greeted by his husband, Michael Shiosaki, after reading a statement to the media, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Seattle. A lawsuit filed Thursday accuses Murray of sexually molesting a teenage high-school dropout in the 1980s, and in interviews with The Seattle Times, two other men claim he abused them. The mayor denied the allegations through his personal spokesman Jeff Reading. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, left, walks away with his husband, Michael Shiosaki, after reading a statement to the media, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Seattle. A lawsuit filed Thursday accuses Murray of sexually molesting a teenage high-school dropout in the 1980s, and in interviews with The Seattle Times, two other men claim he abused them. The mayor denied the allegations through his personal spokesman Jeff Reading. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, left, walks away with his husband, Michael Shiosaki, after reading a statement to media members, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Seattle. A lawsuit filed Thursday accuses Murray of sexually molesting a teenage high-school dropout in the 1980s, and in interviews with The Seattle Times, two other men claim he abused them. The mayor denied the allegations through his personal spokesman Jeff Reading. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray reads a statement to media members, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Seattle. A lawsuit filed Thursday accuses Murray of sexually molesting a teenage high-school dropout in the 1980s, and in interviews with The Seattle Times, two other men claim he abused them. The mayor denied the allegations through his personal spokesman Jeff Reading. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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This undated family photo provided by Katrina Gross shows her son Tysen Benz. Benz, an 11-year-old Michigan boy hanged himself in his room after seeing social media posts indicating that his girlfriend had committed suicide. The posts turned out to be a prank. Now the boy's mother, Katrina Goss, says school officials should have done more to prevent his death. Goss says the girlfriend attended the same school as Tysen. He died Tuesday, April 4, 2017, at a Detroit hospital. (Katrina Gross via AP)
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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signs a ceremonial copy of a bill aimed at giving parents more control over medical decisions involving their disabled or critically ill children, Friday, April 7, 2017, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Behind him, Sheryl Crosier, a St. Louis mother who sought the law, hugs Kathy Ostrowski of Kansans for Life, which pushed it to passage. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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Sheryl Crosier, of St. Louis, speaks during a ceremony for Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's signing of legislation aimed at giving parents more control over medical decisions for their disabled or critically ill children as her husband, Scott, watches to her left, Friday, April 7, 2017, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The measure is called "Simon's Law" for the Crosiers' 3-month-old son who died in 2010. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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Gary Moran, right, listens to his attorney, Angela Walker, during his sentencing in Maricopa County Superior Court, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Phoenix. The homeless ex-convict was spared the death penalty Friday and sentenced to life in prison for killing a Catholic priest nearly three years ago with another priest's gun at a Phoenix church and beating another clergyman with a metal rod. (Mark Henle /The Arizona Republic via AP)
