Jerry Brown Wins Praise, Criticism for Stance on Proposition 8

Sacramento Bee
January 5, 2009
Brown likens his actions to that of state Attorney General Thomas Lynch, who in 1964 challenged voters' passage of Proposition 14, a measure that overturned a state law against housing discrimination. Proposition 14 -- also an amendment to the state constitution -- was later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. [Link]