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FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, file photo, volunteer lawyers work to help free travelers detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. A cadre of volunteer lawyers, translators and others camped out in a diner at John F. Kennedy Airport, trying to find and free people abruptly detained under President Donald Trump's order temporary banning refugees and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from traveling to the U.S. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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FILE- This June 20, 2014, file photo, Chief U.S. District judge Gerald Rosen shows after Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation to provide state funding for Detroit municipal pensions as part of city's bankruptcy process in Detroit. Rosen is retiring from the federal bench Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, and opening a Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services branch in Detroit on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
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Somali refugees Habiba Mohamed and Abdalla Munye pose for a portrait to Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, in Decatur, Ga.. The couple's 20-year-old daughter is unable the leave Somalia due to the travel ban implemented by President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., followed by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., arrives for a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **
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State Sen. President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, responds to a lawmakers question concerning his bill to prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities during a hearing of the Senate Public Safety Committee, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. The committee approved De Leon's measure, SB54, that has been introduced less than a week after President Donald Trump's signed an order threatening to withdraw some federal grants from jurisdictions that bar official from communicating with federal authorities about someone's immigration status. If approved by the Legislature and signed by the governor, it could create a border-to-border sanctuary in the nation's largest state.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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State Sen. President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, responds to a lawmakers question concerning his bill to prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities during a hearing of the Senate Public Safety Committee, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. The committee approved De Leon's measure, SB54, that has been introduced less than a week after President Donald Trump's signed an order threatening to withdraw some federal grants from jurisdictions that bar official from communicating with federal authorities about someone's immigration status. If approved by the Legislature and signed by the governor, it could create a border-to-border sanctuary in the nation's largest state.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Archbishop Wilton Gregory of the Archdiocese of Atlanta speaks during a news conference at the Richmond County Courthouse on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, in Augusta, Ga. The Archbishop along with bishops Felipe Estevez and Gregory Hartmayer gathered to ask the district attorney to not seek the death penalty in the case against Steven James Murray, who is charged with the killing of the Rev. Rene Robert. . (AP Photo/Heidi Heilbrunn)
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Archbishop Wilton Gregory of the Archdiocese of Atlanta speaks during a news conference at the Richmond County Courthouse on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Heidi Heilbrunn) ** FILE **
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Archbishop Wilton Gregory of the Archdiocese of Atlanta speaks during a news conference at the Richmond County Courthouse on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, in Augusta, Ga. The Archbishop along with bishops Felipe Estevez and Gregory Hartmayer gathered to ask the district attorney to not seek the death penalty in the case against Steven James Murray, who is charged with the killing of the Rev. Rene Robert. (AP Photo/Heidi Heilbrunn)
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Archbishop Wilton Gregory of the Archdiocese of Atlanta speaks during a news conference at the Richmond County Courthouse on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, in Augusta, Ga. The Archbishop along with bishops Felipe Estevez and Gregory Hartmayer gathered to ask the district attorney to not seek the death penalty in the case against Steven James Murray, who is accused of killing the Rev. Rene Robert. (AP Photo/Heidi Heilbrunn)
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Archbishop Wilton Gregory of the Archdiocese of Atlanta speaks during a news conference at the Richmond County Courthouse on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, in Augusta, Ga. The Archbishop along with bishops Felipe Estevez and Gregory Hartmayer gathered to ask the district attorney to not seek the death penalty in the case against Steven James Murray, who is accused of killing the Rev. Rene Robert. (AP Photo/Heidi Heilbrunn)
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Archbishop Wilton Gregory of the Archdiocese of Atlanta speaks during a news conference at the Richmond County Courthouse on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, in Augusta, Ga. The Archbishop along with bishops Felipe Estevez and Gregory Hartmayer gathered to ask the district attorney to not seek the death penalty in the case against Steven James Murray, who is accused of killing the Rev. Rene Robert. (AP Photo/Heidi Heilbrunn)
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Bishop Felipe Estevez of the Diocese of St. Augustine delivers petitions to honor Father Rene Wayne Robert's "Declaration of Life" at the Richmond County Courthouse on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, in Augusta, Ga. The Archbishop, along with bishops Felipe Estevez and Gregory Hartmayer gathered to ask the district attorney to not seek the death penalty in the case against Steven James Murray, who is accused of killing the Rev. Rene Robert. The bishops noted that Robert left a signed and notarized “Declaration of Life” saying that if he were to suffer a violent death he wouldn’t want the person responsible to be executed. (AP Photo/Heidi Heilbrunn)
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Bishop Gregory Hartmayer speaks during a news conference at the Richmond County Courthouse on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, in Augusta, Ga. The Bishop along with Bishop Felipe Estevez and Archbishop Wilton Gregory gathered to ask the district attorney to not seek the death penalty in the case against Steven James Murray, who is accused of killing the Rev. Rene Robert. (AP Photo/Heidi Heilbrunn)
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Fired acting Attorney General Sally Q. Yates is hailed as a hero by Democrats for refusing to enforce President Trump’s order on refugees. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee member Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, center, takes his seat on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, for the committee's executive session on the nomination of Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos. From left are, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., Hatch and Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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A woman walks past a sign advertising "Obamacare", Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, in Miami. The enrollment period for the federal health care law known as "Obamacare" ends at the end of the day Tuesday. The Republican-lead Senate has passed a measure to take the first step forward on dismantling President Barack Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) **FILE**
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Sami Jamaleddine, left, signs up for health insurance offered under the Affordable Care Act with insurance agent Michael Khoury, right, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, in Miami. The enrollment period for the federal health care law known as "Obamacare" ends at the end of the day Tuesday. The Republican-lead Senate has passed a measure to take the first step forward on dismantling President Barack Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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Jessie Lamphere, a transgender high school student, stands with his mom, Tyler Lamphere, left, after a brief hearing at the state Capitol in Pierre, S.D., Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. A bill that would have restricted which locker rooms South Dakota transgender students could use was withdrawn Tuesday. (AP Photo/James Nord)
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In this Thursday, March 19, 2015, file photo, a notebook of British mathematician Alan Turing is displayed in front of his portrait during an auction preview in Hong Kong. Thousands of men convicted under now-abolished anti-homosexuality laws in Britain have been pardoned posthumously under a law passed on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, and many more still alive can now apply to have their criminal convictions wiped out. Calls for a general pardon have noted the 1954 suicide of World War II codebreaking hero Alan Turing after his conviction for "gross indecency." After he received a posthumous royal pardon in 2013, pressure for pardons intensified. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, file)
