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A flag from a hunting club formed during the Reconstruction era in South Carolina is seen at the Charleston Museum in Charleston, S.C., on April 30, 2014. The flag is part of a new exhibit of flags at the museum that opens on May 5, 2014. Hunting clubs were formed by whites in the South as social clubs but also to oppose Reconstruction governments following the Civil War. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)
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FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2011 file photo, Occupy Wall Street activists march during a tour of foreclosed homes in the East New York neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has an ambitious plan to build or preserve 200,000 affordable units of housing over the next 10 years for lower-income New Yorkers, a staggering number that would house a population bigger than cities such as Atlanta or Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
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Darcy Simpson, middle, hugs adopted sons Tray Simpson, left, 15, and Dalton Simpson, right, 12, in Ada County Court in Boise, Idaho, Friday, May 2, 2014, after a hearing allowing Darcy to legally adopt her partner Rene Simpson's two sons. Judge McGregor Irby, who turned down the adoption in September, was ordered to process it by the Idaho Supreme Court in a February unanimous opinion. (AP Photo/The Idaho Statesman, Kyle Green)
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Married couple Rene Simpson, left, and Darcy Simpson, right, share a quite moment in Ada County Court while waiting for Judge McGregor Irby to enter the courtroom in Boise, Idaho, to begin their hearing Friday, May 2, 2014, allowing Darcy to legally adopt Rene's two sons, 15 year-old Tray Simpson and 12 year-old Dalton Simpson. Judge McGregor Irby, who turned down the adoption in September, was ordered to process it by the Idaho Supreme Court in a February unanimous opinion. “I just thought it was the law,” MacGregor Irby explained after the hearing, “But I was wrong and I’m glad I was wrong. I do believe that it really is in their best interests.”(AP Photo/The Idaho Statesman, Kyle Green)
