Republicans Now Trying to Trick Voters Into Limiting Their Own Power

Missourians are about to vote on their own power to change the state constitution. Missouri, along with 26 other states and Washington, D.C., has a process by which voters can gather signatures and initiate amendments to the state constitution by putting a ballot measure to a vote. As it stands, if a citizen-led amendment wins a simple statewide majority—six of Missouri’s eight congressional districts—the initiative will pass. But Tuesday’s primary election might take that away. Amendment 4,…