I read through the MO “citizen”-led amendment 6 initiative petition today and its ballot summary. 🚨 Spoiler alert 🚨: its hot garbage for Missouri. It’s a deceptive, subversive, pernicious threat to our liberties and form of government. 1️⃣ It’s clearly (and cleverly) intended to keep the legislature from bringing challenges to abortion, sports betting, Obamacare, and legal marijuana. All leftist causes that could not succeed in the legislative process, but only through leftist-donor funded campaigns under the guise of “citizen-led” petitions. 2️⃣ In practice, it sets up functional legislation-through-out-of-state-donors and political lobbies, rather than the purported direct democracy, which is pernicious in and of itself (see America’s Founding Fathers). 3️⃣ It assumes the “will of the people” (via direct democracy) is sacrosanct (but only after January 1, 2010!) while assuming the legislature, elected by the people to represent the people, is suspicious. By the way, this is the exact opposite of what the American Founding Fathers thought. 4️⃣ It also enshrines judicial supremacy by giving permission for activist judges to rewrite or revise ballot summaries without any legislative guardrails. Thus, contrary to the stated purpose of protecting the “will of the people,” it removes powers of oversight from elected representatives and hands it to unelected judges. Try squaring that circle. 5️⃣ In violation of both the Missouri and U.S. Constitution (see Judge Green’s decision below), it subverts our republican form of government by replacing it with judicial supremacy and direct democracy. If you care at all about preserving and protecting our freedoms that have been secured through representative democracy (contra direct democracy), and if you don’t want political lobbies legislating through billionaire-funded constitutional amendments (this is what they are calling “democracy”), then vote NO on Amendment 6 in November.