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California governor signs bill requiring Trump release his tax returns to appear on ballot
The Hill ^ | July 30, 2019 | Chris Mills Rodrigo

Posted on 07/30/2019 11:31:31 AM PDT by rdl6989

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Tuesday signed a bill requiring President Trump to release his tax returns before he can appear on the state's 2020 primary ballot.

Under S.B. 27, called the "Presidential Tax Transparency and Accountability Act," any candidate running for president or governor of California will be required to file copies of the last five years of their tax returns to the California secretary of State.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2020election; california; election; election2020; gavinnewsom; jaysekulow; nlz; taxes; unconstitutional
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To: rdl6989

The minimum requirements for becoming the president of the United States of America are outlined in Article II of the United States Constitution. It says nothing about disclosing your taxes.


61 posted on 07/30/2019 12:25:15 PM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: rdl6989

Doesn’t the President receive income only for his office while his prior business concerns are held in blind trust? And doesn’t Trump donate 100% of his Presidential salary to charity anyway?

Sure, release those returns.


62 posted on 07/30/2019 12:29:11 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: rdl6989

When is Newson releasing his?


63 posted on 07/30/2019 12:37:09 PM PDT by bgill
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Trump needs to let slip that California election returns won’t be accepted. That’ll get their attention!


64 posted on 07/30/2019 12:38:30 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sounds like a bill of attainder.

Expressly forbidden by the Constitution.


65 posted on 07/30/2019 12:39:41 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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To: EagleUSA
There is a serious Constitutional issue here

Shhhhh... The media won't tell, and the governor won't tell so don't let the Democrats’ useful idiots know. You'd have to start from scratch explaining how the Constitution doesn't allow legislation that feeds, clothes, shelter, or educates them.

After their screams of anguish have died down tell them there are only two conditions a presidential candidate must meet. He must be over thirty-five years old and a natural born citizen. A presidential candidate can be a convicted serial killer but if he is over 35 and a natural born citizen he meets the constitutional requirements.

66 posted on 07/30/2019 12:45:22 PM PDT by MosesKnows
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To: RGF

Trump should just ignore it and then we can see the democrat’s tax return when they get on the ballot.


67 posted on 07/30/2019 12:48:28 PM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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To: rdl6989

CA would need a Constitutional Amendment to do this. FAIL.


68 posted on 07/30/2019 12:51:27 PM PDT by montag813
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To: rdl6989

Unconstitutional.


69 posted on 07/30/2019 12:56:31 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: rdl6989; All
Thank you California Gov. Gavin Newsom, for inspiring the following analysis of probable (imo) MAJOR constitutional problems with state laws dealing with electing POTUS.

Under the bullying of the corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties, state procedures for electing a president violate express 12th Amendment (12A) procedures for electing POTUS imo, so-called state “winner-take-all” laws for electoral votes for example.

Excerpted from the 12th Amendment: "The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate [emphasis added]; …"

Also concerning 12A, note that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had never heard of a primary election.

Next, consider that political party blatant disregard for the 12A is also evidence that the political parties are arguably the product of an agreement / compact between the states that the states never got congressional approval for as required by the Constitution’s Article I, Section 10, Clause 3.

"Article I, Section 10, Clause 3: No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State [emphasis added], or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay."

In other words, the rogue political parties are arguably an unconstitutional agreement / compact between the states imo. And how can corrupt, post-17th Amendment Congress approve political parties after the fact since they have introduced major problems with 12A?

Corrections, insights welcome.

Remember in November 2020!

MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)


70 posted on 07/30/2019 12:56:34 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: max americana

So are they pepared for 2 million write in ballots.


71 posted on 07/30/2019 1:04:15 PM PDT by crusher2013
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To: Red Badger

The Constitution is clear on what the requirements are to be a candidate for president. This cannot stand — it would open the floodgates for bogus requirements..


72 posted on 07/30/2019 1:09:23 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: rdl6989

How many
Electoral College votes for California are there?

Could they all be at risk if Newsom tries to enforce this???

How about Kamala’s tax returns?

She IS NOT ELIGIBLE anyway to be President.


73 posted on 07/30/2019 1:11:48 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: rdl6989

Sorry, Gubinor Nuisance.. No banana..

Interfering with the rights of voters to cast ballots for all eligible candidates is a new concept for you and the Left but you’ll get used to it and also illegal, but hey, who cares, right? The local media and a stacked legislature obviously doesn’t.

California is adaptable and soon it will adapt itself out of any semblance of order and the rule of law and only be controlled like a gulag state for the sake of an agenda as deep as the leadership’s ineptness and the abyss it now faces.


74 posted on 07/30/2019 1:22:33 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: rdl6989

It’s an additional qualification for the office, therefore unconstitutional. It’s the same reason why congressional term limits passed in the 1990’s was overturned.


75 posted on 07/30/2019 1:26:31 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: rdl6989

I don’t think that even Traitor Roberts would not allow this.


76 posted on 07/30/2019 1:37:37 PM PDT by Revel
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To: rdl6989

The FEC only requires an audited P&L.


77 posted on 07/30/2019 1:38:02 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: rdl6989
Since Calif. is a Democrat cesspool that went overwhelmingly for Hillary and all their Electoral College votes went to her, Trump doesn't even have to be on the ballot.........

Fight it in court and if he loses, oh well. We might see some stuff on the Democrats that they might not want seen........

78 posted on 07/30/2019 1:45:08 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: SeekAndFind

Looks like?

It IS a violation.


79 posted on 07/30/2019 1:47:13 PM PDT by cranked
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To: rdl6989

California cannot change the Constitution of the United States. They are indeed interfering in the election of our President.

governor Gavin Newsom needs to be raided by the FBI with guns and arrested!


80 posted on 07/30/2019 2:09:54 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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