Xenophon, who supported the bill, voted with Labor and the Greens to support this amendment, warning that the government might lose crossbench support if it went back on its word.
This week, several cabinet members, including Defense Secretary William S. Cohen and the national security adviser, Samuel R. Berger, telephoned senators who were wavering on the amendment, warning that it overlapped existing law and hindered the president's ability to compel China to curb proliferation.
The state education secretary and the State Board of Education have joined Governor Bush in opposing Amendment 9, warning that a vote for the amendment amounts to a vote for a tax increase.
It has provoked a wide debate about its possible impact on press freedom in the US, with first amendment advocates warning it could spread a chill across investigative reporting.
The government issued a punchy statement after the amendment passed, warning that it "upends the balance between our democratic institutions and sets a dangerous, unpredictable precedent for the future".
A voter deemed neurotic might be shown a gun-rights commercial featuring burglars breaking into a home, rather than a defense of the Second Amendment; political ads warning of the dangers posed by the Islamic State could be targeted directly at voters prone to anxiety, rather than wasted on those identified as optimistic.
Schlafly defeated the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s by warning of female soldiers, same-sex marriage, and the possibility that straight marriages would lose their strictly defined gender roles.
Trump and his defenders are fighting criticism that he was warning that "Second Amendment people" ― gun rights activists ― could try to undo a President Hillary Clinton's Supreme Court appointments using armed violence.
But with digital rights and technology experts warning that government amendments are confusing or counterproductive, it's questionable whether Australia has finally unscrambled the encryption omelette or set its law enforcement agencies and IT industry up to fail.
The language is tied to the part of the Miranda opinion that seems to view custodial questioning as inherently compelling, that is, automatically a violation of the Fifth Amendment, without warnings.
Local authorities, including Tory and Lib Dem town halls, yesterday urged MPs to back the "common-sense" amendment when it goes before MPs today, warning that the current plans risked "opening the floodgates" to thousands of unsightly house extensions.
