Posted on 06/24/2018 7:29:23 AM PDT by mandaladon
The latest resistance plan against President Donald Trump's 2020 election campaign includes attempts in at least 25 states to pass a law that requires presidential candidates to release their tax returns to appear on the ballot.
President Trump is the only modern-day president to refuse to release his personal tax returns, so conceivably a law passed to require that could block him from the ballot. The issue with that trolling plan is no state has been able to officially pass a law requiring it.
Even deep blue California and New Jersey have vetoed the laws after it had passed both state chambers, but both Rhode Island and Maryland are currently working such a law in their state Houses after passing it in their Senate chambers, according to Axios.
Former Gov. Chris Christie, D-N.J., had called the attempt in his state a "transparent political stunt" in vetoing the law, while Gov. Jerry Brown, D-Calif., said it "sets a 'slippery slope' precedent for what individuals states could require of candidates," per Axios.
Such laws might wind up being battled in the Supreme Court, too, because they might not be constitutional. The top U.S. court has ruled in the past states nor the federal government can create new requirements for House or Senate candidates, AP reports, which likely would extend to the head of the executive branch, too.
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These states are in violation of federal. Take then over as rebellious states.
If they want to defeat him, why not do it by convincing voters that their ideas are better?
States do have standing whereas WTP do not?
This could not be done in the age of BO’B, how is it possible it can be so now?
POLITICAL SYSTEM CROOKED? not much, eh?
These guys make Nixon look like a piker.
They will be traumatized when Trump wins by write-in votes anyway.....
Am I beginning to sense a pattern?
I think that the other 25 States should pass a law that says that the Presidential Candidate must have owned at least one hotel in the past ten years to get on the ballot.
The Constitution determines eligibility, not the States crybabies.
Not constitutional. Even the 9th Circus would see that.
5.56mm
Was there such a thing as “tax returns” when the Constitution was written? How about medical records?
Nope neither are there.
If such an idiot law is passed by a State and not thrown out as exceeding a States jurisdiction for Federal requirements, then Red States should go all-in.
- Require official birth certificate
- Require medical records
- Require all arrest records, citations, late-payment notices on taxes, liens, etc
The reality is this is just a bunch of B.S. posing / virtue signaling by Dems.
...Such laws might wind up being battled in the Supreme Court, too, because they might not be constitutional...
For the life of me, I can’t find anything about taxes in the Constitution as a requirement for running for President.
Democrats are desperate, deranged, and Psychotic and throwing everything against the refrigerator door, hoping something will stick.
Can’t do it. Too much like work.
Not a Trump fan, but those 25 states are actually Anti-Democracy States now. They are saying “We make rules to only allow certain exclusive people on the ballot” .
The title is wrong. It should read twenty-five states move to block democracy.
So their plan is to give 50% of the country no option to vote for their leader. Sounds like a hell of a plan...
limit their federal funding, wanna play games?
Those are the very same people that make up rules on the spot about who is allowed in their restaurants.
It took Amendment 16 in 1913 to start it. I checked Amendment XVI and it says that the government has the power to levy taxes, but it says nothing about Presidential candidates, or anyone else for that matter, being required to make them public.
“”””Not a Trump fan,””””
So why are you here?
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