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In this May 14, 2013, file photo, the Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington is photographed early in the morning. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

DOJ, South Dakota school board reach deal on voting rights lawsuit

In this March 16, 2020, file photo, a tree blooms outside the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Supreme Court orders states to respond to churches' appeals to reopen

In this May 7, 2020, file photo, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak speaks during a news conference in Carson City, Nev. A recall drive against Gov. Sisolak appeared doomed Monday, May 18, 2020, after a federal judge in Las Vegas denied a signature-gathering deadline extension sought by a group that wants to qualify a removal measure for a statewide vote. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner, File)

Nevada governor to allow churches to open after DOJ warning

In this July 1, 2019, file photo, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown speaks with the media at the Capitol in Salem, Ore. Gov. Brown on Thursday, May 7, 2020, outlined a detailed plan for beginning to reopen the state in the coming weeks while stressing that reduced restrictions on businesses and residents could be rolled back if the virus resurges. Counties that have had few cases of the coronavirus and that can meet strict guidelines may be able to reopen certain businesses as early as May 15. (AP Photo/Sarah Zimmerman, File)

Pastors sue Oregon governor for easing limits on restaurants, gyms but not churches

This Friday, March 22, 2019, file photo shows the Department of Justice Building in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Justice Department says Nevada's social distancing orders for churches are unconstitutional

Young members of the Church of God hold signs during a demonstration against California's stay-at-home orders that were put in place due to the coronavirus outbreak, in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. (Watchara Phomicinda/The Orange County Register via AP, File)

California reveals plan to resume in-person church services with restrictions

A visitor sits at a gravesite at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Tuesday, April 7, 2020. National cemeteries are open and will continue to provide interments for veterans and eligible individuals, but due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak committal services and the rendering of military funeral honors have been discontinued until further notice. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **

Top lawmakers tell VA to remove German POW headstones with swastikas

In this March 12, 2020, file photo, California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to reporters about his executive order advising that non-essential gatherings of more than 250 people should be canceled until at least the end of March, during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. Newsom has approved 45 of California's 58 counties to reopen some businesses since May 8 when he loosened his original mid-March stay-at-home order. Los Angeles County, where more than 2,400 have died, is moving more cautiously, on Friday, May 22, 2020, allowing curbside pickup to resume at indoor malls. Rural Modoc County, where no cases have been reported, reopened businesses the first week of May. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

9th Circuit Court upholds California ban on in-person church services

President Donald Trump gestures to Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, to take the podium to speak as he leaves after speaking with reporters about the coronavirus in the James Brady Briefing Room of the White House, Friday, May 22, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump to states: Churches must reopen this weekend

President Donald Trump speaks as he tours Ford's Rawsonville Components Plant that has been converted to making personal protection and medical equipment, Thursday, May 21, 2020, in Ypsilanti, Mich. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump tells CDC to issue new guidelines for reopening churches quickly

President Donald Trump talks to reporters before departing the White House for a trip to Michigan, Thursday, May 21, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump says Democratic governors not treating churches with respect

In this April 3, 2019, file photo, actress Lori Loughlin, front, and her husband, clothing designer Mossimo Giannulli, left, depart federal court in Boston after a hearing in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Lori Loughlin, Mossimo Giannulli to serve prison time for college scam

In this July 28, 2009, file photo, Norma McCorvey, right, the plaintiff in the landmark lawsuit Roe v. Wade, speaks up as she joins other anti-abortion demonstrators inside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office on Capitol Hill in Washington. McCorvey died at an assisted living center in Katy, Texas on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017. In a new documentary airing May 22, 2020 on the FX network, McCorvey is shown in an interview filmed prior to her death claiming she only became a pro-life activist for the money. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Pro-life allies of Norma McCorvey deny 'deathbed confession' she was paid to oppose abortion

A police officer ties police tape to a handrail. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Authorities probe fire at Miss. church fighting stay-at-home order

A visitor sits at a gravesite at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Tuesday, April 7, 2020. National cemeteries are open and will continue to provide interments for veterans and eligible individuals, but due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak committal services and the rendering of military funeral honors have been discontinued until further notice. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **

Lawmaker wants swastika memorials removed from U.S. veterans' cemeteries

Gov. Gavin Newsom announces new criteria related to coronavirus hospitalizations and testing that could allow counties to open faster than the state, during a news conference at Mustards Grill in Napa, Calif., Monday May 18, 2020. Newsom says the new criteria could apply to 53 of the state's 58 counties. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, Pool)

DOJ warns Gavin Newsom, California over coronavirus limits on churches

FILE - In this March 30, 2016 file photo, Christian apologist and author Ravi Zacharias, left, talks with associate professor Lenny Luchetti during the Society of World Changers induction ceremony at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Ind. Zacharias, who built an international ministry that strives to defend Christianity on intellectual grounds, has died in Georgia. Zacharias died Tuesday, May 19, 2020 at his home in Atlanta after a brief battle with sarcoma, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries said in a statement. (Jeff Morehead/The Chronicle-Tribune via AP, File)

Ravi Zacharias, evangelist who built global ministry, dies at 74

Israeli right-wing activist Amiram Ben-Uliel arrives at a district court for a verdict in the city of Lod, Israel, Monday, May 18, 2020. An Israeli district court has convicted Ben-Uliel of murder in a 2015 arson attack that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents. (Avshalom Sassoni/Pool Photo via AP)

Jewish extremist convicted in arson that killed Arab toddler

In this Saturday, April 11, 2020, file photo, the Rev. Timothy Pelc blesses Easter baskets outside St. Ambrose Church in Grosse Pointe Park, Mich. Pelc, wearing church vestments and protective gear, offered a prayer and sprayed holy water from a squirt gun instead of blessing baskets inside the church in a bid to maintain social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. (Natalie White via AP) ** FILE **

Priest uses 'holy water' gun to maintain tradition amid social distancing

In this Thursday, March 19, 2020, file photo, the Rev. Alvin J. Gwynn Sr., of Friendship Baptist Church in Baltimore, sits for a portrait in his church. Gwynn said that police tried to halt services at his church on Sunday, March 29, 2020, even though he had limited in-person attendance to 10 people. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

Prominent Baltimore pastor to defy executive order, host services for 250

Online graduations still bring stars to the virtual lectern

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Wednesday, May 13, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump breaks with Fauci over reopening country, cites schools

In this Dec. 13, 2019, file photo, A Jewish man, right, walks along Martin Luther King Drive in Jersey City, N.J., near the location where three people and two gunmen were shot and killed earlier in the week. American Jews were targets of more anti-Semitic incidents in 2019 than any other year over the past four decades, a surge marked by deadly attacks on a California synagogue, a Jewish grocery store in New Jersey and a rabbi's New York home, the Anti-Defamation League reported Tuesday, May 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Anti-Semitism surges across New York, New Jersey and nation, ADL audit shows

This photo released by Erin Elliott shows the wedding of Melissa Todd and Jeffrey Hall in November 2019 in Chicago. The couple had seven guests, feeding a trend toward micro weddings that has grown stronger since the coronavirus pandemic sent millions into isolation. (Erin Elliott via AP)

Couples turn to 'minimonies' to salvage wedding plans during coronavirus crisis

In this file photo, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, of N.Y., questions FBI Director Christopher Wray as he testifies during an oversight hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020 in Washington. Mr. Nadler on May 28, 2020, expressed his frustration at House Republicans for holding up a FISA reauthorization bill. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

House Chairman Jerry Nadler blasts DOJ's defense of churches during coronavirus

Church and steeple (Associated Press file image)

Megachurch pastor calls for churches to open nationwide this weekend

Using social distancing practices, churchgoers return to in-person services at Alamo Heights Baptist Church, Sunday, May 10, 2020, in San Antonio. Texas' stay-at-home orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic have expired and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has eased restrictions on many businesses, state parks, churches and places of worship. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Churches turn back shutdown orders with help of feds

Pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome associated with COVID-19 has caused 64 children in New York to be hospitalized, with cases reported in three other states. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

COVID-19 possible cause of severe illness in children

This April 9, 2020, photo released by Kara Illig shows her daughter, Ainslie Illig, 8, on her computer in Ebensburg, Pa. The frustration of parents is mounting as more families across the U.S. enter their second or even third week of total distance learning, and some say it will be their last. (Kara Illig via AP)

Harvard's campaign for home-schooling crackdown runs up against shutdown surge

President Donald Trump closes his eyes as he prays during a White House National Day of Prayer Service in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, May 7, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

'Hope and healing': Trump prays for recovery as economy sheds more jobs

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