(That campaign failed, but a narrower amendment to the Arizona constitution defining marriage as "a union of one man and one woman" passed two years later).
The underlying dispute is a narrow First Amendment challenge brought by Citizens United, a nonprofit group that wanted to show an anti-Hillary Clinton movie on a video-on-demand service during the primary season.
It narrowed Fourth Amendment search-and-seizure protections, backing random drug tests for students who participate in any extracurricular activity, even -- as in the case before it -- choir.
Ms. Dalglish and Jim George, an Austin media lawyer, said that some journalists and lawyers feared that a resolution by the Supreme Court could further narrow any First Amendment protections journalists might have thought they had from being compelled to divulge information.
Narrowing the First Amendment is not the way.
The Ninth Circuit, instead of endorsing U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker's sweeping 2010 decision that Prop 8 was "unconstitutional under both the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses" of the 14th Amendment, narrowed it to declare that rights previously granted cannot be taken away.
Cruz wrote: "For example, although arguing for a narrow construction of the amendment, Professor Laurence Tribe has squarely concluded that the second amendment provides a 'right (admittedly of uncertain scope) on the part of individuals to possess and use firearms in the defense of themselves and their homes'".
"Is it a broad protection against nonconsensual debt restructurings, or a narrow protection against majority amendment of certain 'core terms'?" she asked.
These experts and others, including Othni Lathram, the director of the nonpartisan Alabama Law Institute, say Mr. Orr's amendment was narrow enough anyway that it would have no effect on debates over the state and public education.
His position on civil liberties was ambivalent, however, and he relied on a very narrow construction of First Amendment rights in his decisions concerning the suppression of free speech during the Red Scare of 1919 20.
