{"id":3644,"date":"2025-09-15T17:41:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3644"},"modified":"2025-09-15T17:41:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:41:55","slug":"republicans-are-trying-to-raise-the-bar-for-voters-to-amend-their-state-constitutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/republicans-are-trying-to-raise-the-bar-for-voters-to-amend-their-state-constitutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans are trying to raise the bar for voters to amend their state constitutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The uptick comes as progressives have found success with ballot measure campaigns to expand or protect abortion rights in state constitutions following the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022. In 2024, those initiatives passed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/abortion-rights-ballot-measures-pass-7-states-fail-3-others-rcna178718\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seven of the 10 states<\/a> where they were on the ballot, including Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/elections\/republicans-are-trying-raise-bar-voters-amend-state-constitutions-rcna230717\">NBC News <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The uptick comes as progressives have found success with ballot measure campaigns to expand or protect abortion rights in state constitutions following the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022. In 2024, those initiatives passed in seven of the 10 states where they were on the ballot, including Missouri. Read more at &#8230; <a title=\"Republicans are trying to raise the bar for voters to amend their state constitutions\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/republicans-are-trying-to-raise-the-bar-for-voters-to-amend-their-state-constitutions\/\" aria-label=\"More on Republicans are trying to raise the bar for voters to amend their state constitutions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,407,308],"class_list":["post-3644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-ballot-initiative-measures","tag-gop-undermining","tag-state-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3645,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions\/3645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}