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This apparently applies just the primary ballot and not the general election. I see federal lawsuits in the near future.
1 posted on 07/30/2019 11:31:31 AM PDT by rdl6989
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is He afraid Trump will win California?


81 posted on 07/30/2019 2:13:22 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Free-Wwg1wga and enjoy the show.)
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This should ally to all politicians or none.


84 posted on 07/30/2019 2:48:42 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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Does this law require the Democrat candidates to release their taxes?


85 posted on 07/30/2019 3:24:17 PM PDT by Kazan
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They should start with requiring a certified birth certificate.


86 posted on 07/30/2019 3:27:41 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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I’m sure if there were a problem
with Trumps taxes, the IRS would
have nailed him by now. This is
just an extension of the witch
hunt, trying to show misdealings
with Russia and Trumps withdrawn
deal for a Hotel.


87 posted on 07/30/2019 3:30:34 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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OK I'm no Constitutional expert but isn't this a clear violation of the 14th Amendment?

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

88 posted on 07/30/2019 3:35:06 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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Destined to fail, but it doesn’t matter. Just another tactic to keep appeal to the DEM base and keep Trump’s lawyers busy 24/7.


89 posted on 07/30/2019 3:45:04 PM PDT by CatOwner
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Wont matter. Trump has no chance of winning Mexico Norte.


90 posted on 07/30/2019 5:05:25 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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Hard to see how this could be unconstitutional.

Hosting Presidential primaries is a voluntary act by the state, not a statutory to say the least of Constitutional obligation under federal law, and respecting Presidential primary results is voluntary by political parties. Many states don't have Presidential primaries, and every primary state has some hybridization between the primary outcomes and the Party organization's actions in the actual selection of delegates.

Why compel California to alter its primary eligibility standards, when the Republican Party, if they don't like them, can simply provide for caucuses or the State Party committee structure to select delegates.

(The reason why they can't easily require tax returns for the general election is that the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates are only nominally on the ballot; the actual candidates are the electors, and compelling the entire elector slates to release their returns isn't very desirable an outcome.)
91 posted on 07/30/2019 6:46:50 PM PDT by only1percent ( who)
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A re-call petition for the governor of California is in the works.


92 posted on 07/30/2019 6:55:13 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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