Marion Jones of the US makes a jump during the Women's Long Jump at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team Trials 15 July, 2004 at the Alex G. Spanos Athletic Complex in Sacramento, CA. Jones was first after this her second jump of 7.11 m (23.04 ft) her longest jump since 1998.
Protesters gather in Sacramento during the Occupy the Capitol protest at the state Capitol in Sacramento, California March 5, 2012. Thousands of protesters gathered in Sacramento to demand higher funding for education.
Sacramento Police Officers are seen following a clash between law enforcement officers members of the Occupy movement in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. The clash erupted as California Highway Patrol and Sacramento city police officers were escorting members of a pro-white group called the South Africa Project to a parking garage following their protest outside the Capitol.
State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, left, discusses the lawsuit he and Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, center, filed against state Controller John Chiang over last year's state budget, during a Capitol news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. The Legislative leaders are suing the controller for blocking lawmakers paychecks when he decided they had not approved a balance budget by the June 15th deadline. Both Perez and Steinberg say they don't want their money back, but they do want the courts to rule that Controller Chiang violated the constitutional separation of powers when he with held lawmakers pay. At right is retired appellate California Appellate Court Judge Arthur Scotland who is representing Perez and Steinberg.
Sacramento lawyer Charles Bell addresses a hearing at the California Supreme Court in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. Republicans urged the California Supreme Court to dump newly drawn state Senate districts planned for this year's election. Bell told the court Tuesday that Republican interests appear to have gathered enough signatures to qualify a ballot initiative asking voters to overturn the new maps. Bell, who is leading the legal challenge, says that probability compels the court to block use of the new maps. Voters created the California Citizens Redistricting Commission to draw the new maps and take the highly politicized process away from the state Legislature.
Natalya Choban of Sacramento, Calif., protests against gay marriage outside a courtroom where the California Supreme Court was hearing arguments in San Francisco, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. Although the legal challenge to California's same-sex marriage ban always has been assumed to be on track to reach the U.S. Supreme Court, the state's highest court is contemplating an issue that could halt the high-pro.
