Missouri Courts More Likely to Rule for Liberals
High-profile ballot measures are more likely to be rewritten in favor of Liberals.
This weekend, it happened again.
The Court ruled that the Secretary of State must rewrite the ballot summary for Amendment 3 to match Liberal talking points.
In the past decade, the cases have been completely one-sided.
In August of 2018, Labor groups qualified a veto referendum opposing right-to-work. The ballot summary for this measure was upheld.
That November, Missourians voted on “Clean Missouri,” a redistricting scheme pushed by George Soros. The ballot summary for that measure was upheld.
In 2020, Liberals pushed a Constitutional Amendment to expand Medicaid under Obamacare. That ballot measure was upheld.
Here’s where things get interesting.
After the passage of “Clean Missouri,” voters were furious to realize that they had been misled by the court-approved ballot summary.
In particular, they pointed to the first line:
Shall the Constitution be amended to:
change process and criteria for redrawing state legislative districts during reapportionment;
The summary concealed the gravity of these changes to the redistricting process: taking control from the legislature and giving it to the lone elected statewide Democrat then-holding office.
That summary was approved by the Courts.
When the legislature referred its repeal amendment to the ballot, the Courts rewrote the ballot summary.
In 2022, there were no rewrites. Amendment 4, a Constitutional Amendment protecting Kansas City from Mayor Lucas’s attempts to defund the police, would later have its results thrown out and a new election held.
In 2024, the Courts rewrote the ballot summary for Amendment 3 to make it more favorable to abortion proponents.
Just like the fiasco surrounding “Clean Missouri”, Missourians are learning they passed a lot more than they thought they did.
The legislature referred a health and safety amendment to the ballot, also certified as Amendment 3. The Courts just rewrote it.
Inevitably, advocates on opposing sides of an issue will disagree about how those issues should be described.
Missouri Courts, however, have shown that they are not fair arbiters when it comes to ballot measure summaries.
History tells the story.
On political questions such as these, it’s clear that the decision-makers should be the people’s elected Representatives, not unaccountable and unelected judges.
Kansas is taking back its State Supreme Court.
— Liberty Alliance (@LibertyAllUSA) September 22, 2025
Missouri should do the same. #MOLeg https://t.co/rZ3D9QbZQp
Andy Bakker
Executive Director
Liberty Alliance USA