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Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray helps Chef Tim Devine, right, package turkeys for Thanksgiving at Food and Friends, a non-profit organization that provides meals and groceries to people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses, Washington, D.C., Monday, November 24, 2014. Food and Friends will deliver almost 900 turkeys and sides which will total about 3500 meals. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray puts on an apron as he gets ready to package turkeys for Thanksgiving at Food and Friends, a non-profit organization that provides meals and groceries to people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses, Washington, D.C., Monday, November 24, 2014. Food and Friends will deliver almost 900 turkeys and sides which will total about 3500 meals. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray is greeted by Executive Director Craig Shniderman, left, as he arrives to help package turkeys for Thanksgiving at Food and Friends, a non-profit organization that provides meals and groceries to people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses, Washington, D.C., Monday, November 24, 2014. Food and Friends will deliver almost 900 turkeys and sides which will total about 3500 meals. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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The hacker collective Anonymous. (YouTube)
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Comedian Bill Cosby performs during a show at the Maxwell C. King Center for the Performing Arts in Melbourne, Fla., Friday, Nov. 21, 2014. Performances by Cosby in Nevada, Illinois, Arizona, South Carolina and Washington state have been canceled as more women come forward accusing the entertainer of sexually assaulting them years ago. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
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President Obama drew a number of lines in his executive order, slicing and dicing the illegal immigrant community. To qualify for the new deferred action program, someone has to have been in the U.S. for at least five years and have either a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident child. (Associated Press)
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Mayor Marion Barry meets with Rep. Thomas M. Davis III, Virginia Republican, about the D.C. appropriations bill on Capitol Hill on Jan. 28, 2008. (Karen Ballard/The Washington Times)
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Former Mayor Marion Barry and Jesse Jackson Jr. playing basketball in a D.C. housing project in April 18, 1989 (Kevin T. Gilbert/The Washington Times)
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Mayor Marion Barry answers questions after he announced alongside Police Chief Larry Soulsby on April 21, 1997 that he would sponsor a bill which would advocate the death penalty for the murder of a police officer. (Sharon Natoli/The Washington Times)
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"Saturday Night Live" took aim at President Obama's action on illegal immigration by spoofing the 1970s kids' favorite "Schoolhouse Rock" and replacing "Bill" with a chain-smoking "Executive Order." (NBC)
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National Edition News cover for November 22, 2014 - John Boehner files long-awaited lawsuit over Obamacare: House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio responds to President Barack Obama's intention to spare millions of illegal immigrants from being deported, a use of executive powers that is setting up a fight with Republicans in Congress over the limits of presidential powers, Friday, Nov. 21, 2014, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boehner, who has refused to have his members vote on broad immigration legislation passed by the Senate last year, said earlier that Obama's decision to go it alone "cemented his legacy of lawlessness and squandered what little credibility he had left." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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President Barack Obama speaks about immigration, Friday, Nov. 21, 2014, at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas. The president unveiled expansive executive actions on immigration Thursday night to spare nearly 5 million people in the U.S. illegally from deportation, setting off a fierce fight with Republicans over the limits of presidential powers. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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President Barack Obama speaks about immigration, Friday, Nov. 21, 2014, at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas. The president unveiled expansive executive actions on immigration Thursday night to spare nearly 5 million people in the U.S. illegally from deportation, setting off a fierce fight with Republicans over the limits of presidential powers. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**
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Immigration activist Astrid Silva introduces then-President Barack Obama before a speech on immigration at Del Sol High School Friday, Nov. 21, 2014, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken) ** FILE **
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My executive order allowing illegal immigrants to remain here ... (Illustration by Bob Gorrell for Creators Syndicate)
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President Barack Obama speaks about immigration, Friday, Nov. 21, 2014, at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas. The president unveiled expansive executive actions on immigration Thursday night to spare nearly 5 million people in the U.S. illegally from deportation, setting off a fierce fight with Republicans over the limits of presidential powers. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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FILE - In this March 10, 2010 file photo, Leroy Watson holds a sign in support of hundreds of young people participating in a youth immigration rally in Chicago. President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit the Chicago area next Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014 to detail his expansive executive action aimed at keeping roughly 5 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally from deportation. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green,File)
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In this photo taken Nov. 19, 2014, a multi-colored flag is waved by a counter demonstrator at a rally by supporters of Arkansas' law banning same sex marriage at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. Judges in two Arkansas courtrooms are reviewing challenges to the state's gay-marriage ban. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
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Oscar Alfaro and Enriqueta Juarez and their daughter Gelin Alfaro, 16, become emotional as they watch President Obama's speech on his plans for a protections for undocumented immigrants because it will stop Oscar's deportation, at a watch party held at CASA de Maryland's multicultural center, Hyattsville, Maryland, Thursday. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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National Edition Opinion cover for November 21, 2014 - Considering the thorny question of a marriage amendment (Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times)
