FILE - This Jan. 21, 2000, file photo shows the seal bearing the official name "State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" on the floor of the Statehouse rotunda in Providence, R.I. On Nov. 3, voters approved a ballot question to strip the words "and Providence Plantations" from Rhode Island's formal name. (AP Photo/Susan E. Bouchard, File)

FILE - In this March 28, 2020, file photo, Rhode Island Air National Guard Tsgt. William Randall walks through the Watch Hill neighborhood looking for New York residents to inform them of self quarantine orders in Westerly, R.I. The coronavirus pandemic was Rhode Island's top story of 2020. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

FILE - In this June 17, 2020, file photo, Rhode Island Speaker of the House Nicholas Mattiello, center, addresses the House Chamber during a legislative session at the Statehouse, in Providence, R.I. Mattiello, one of the state's most powerful politicians who had been dogged by scandal allegations, lost reelection to Republican activist Barbara Ann Fenton-Fung, wife of Cranston Mayor Allan Fung, in the November general election. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, FIle)

FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2019, file photo, Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser from Middletown, R.I., leaves federal court with his lawyer Sidney Powell, left, following a status conference in Washington. On Nov. 25, 2020, Trump pardoned Flynn despite Flynn's guilty plea to lying to the FBI about his Russia contacts. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)