Morning Digest: Mississippi GOP wants sharp limits on ballot measures—if they allow them at all

_{The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team.}

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● MS Ballot: Mississippi's GOP-led state House has voted to advance a constitutional amendment that would restore the ballot-initiative process that the state's conservative Supreme Court obliterated in 2021. The way they went about it, though, has alienated Democrats—and potentially the Republican leader of the state Senate.

The legislation, most notably, would bar many topics from appearing on the ballot at all, including initiatives that might weaken the state's near-total ban on abortion. Even Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann seems to think these restrictions go too far, but House Republicans don't seem inclined to compromise on his desires for a "pretty clean ballot initiative."

But is this plan still better than nothing for progressives, who currently can't get anything on the ballot? Take a look at Jeff Singer's piece for more on the amendment, as well as its fraught path ahead.