New California Law Requires Presidential
Candidates To Release Tax Returns
National Public Radio,
by
Scott Rodd
Original Article
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk,
7/31/2019 4:01:26 AM
A new law in California will require candidates for president to release their tax returns in order to appear on the primary ballot in March, 2020. (Snip) Candidates will have to submit five years of tax returns by November to be eligible for the primary ballot. California officials will post the information online for the public to access.
Newsom insists the law is constitutional, but it will almost certainly face a challenge in federal court. The law does not name a specific candidate, but opponents say it's a partisan ploy meant aimed at President Trump. They argue removing Trump's name from the ballot
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Trigger2 7/31/2019 4:34:37 AM (No. 138552)
Demonrats will have their tax returns white washed by the corrupt IRS; Republicans will have to file true ones.
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Have these clowns done anything to help American citizens since Trump was elected? Idiots and useful idiots.
20 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
PChristopher 7/31/2019 5:33:47 AM (No. 138576)
The Commucrat Party in Kalifornia should either be broken up or disbanded.
10 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
poliposter 7/31/2019 6:04:16 AM (No. 138586)
Why stop at tax returns? I want to see college transcripts, applications, and while your are at it, high school transcripts!
26 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 7/31/2019 6:09:09 AM (No. 138590)
I don't think this is legal. The states have to comply with federal election laws and requirements for a federal election. Anyone out there familiar with federal election laws?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rinktum 7/31/2019 6:11:31 AM (No. 138592)
Californians, you allowed this to happen to your beautiful state. Being complacent while the communist party consumed the democrat party and then began the march to destroy your state has had untold consequences. We have now learned that you cannot allow the democrat party one inch or they will take a mile and before you know it, what was once a thriving successful state is now overrun with illegals, government corruption and bankruptcy. The past few years have turned some of your most beautiful cities into sewers. It is heartbreaking to watch what has happened there. Now you are up against a wall and your choice is to either fight back or surrender to the unhinged communists that have ruined your home. Lately, the President has been vilified for pointing out what happens to cities and states run by democrats. California is a perfect example. Most rational people are moving out and giving up. What the democrat party has done to California is unconscionable. It is defiant, lawless, and shameless and the only thing good left are the conservative areas fighting to hold on. Newsom and his fellow travelers will ride it straight into the ground. Just look at what they have already accomplished. After each outrageous policy is enacted, I think surely the people will rise up, but it never happens. Newsom’s latest ploy is a craven political ploy.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Highlander 7/31/2019 6:44:01 AM (No. 138602)
#6; Quite an indictment on us Californians. Most of our Democrat politicians are transplants from other states and their voters came flooding into this wonderful state because it’s so .… wonderful! Let’s also include the Latin hordes with their genetic socialism and birthrate, from south of the border. This has been 50 years in the making. With this massive demographic change, there isn’t much conservatives can do about all of this stuff you blame us for. Thanks for the knock.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 7/31/2019 6:48:06 AM (No. 138606)
So states can now demand what is clearly ilegal in Federal law. Once again, two sets of laws. One for democrats the th other, more harsh set, for us.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lazyman 7/31/2019 7:08:32 AM (No. 138613)
This legal disenfranchising of certain voters is a heads up for what will occur if the Socialists get permanent power in the nature of American cities. Gulags for their enemies is on the table for those that don't get this.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 7/31/2019 7:32:27 AM (No. 138641)
That doesn't hurt Trump. He would lose in Kalifornia anyway.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/31/2019 7:37:05 AM (No. 138647)
Perhaps California would like to have its Electoral College Representation disallowed if they continue to write unconstitutional laws...
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/31/2019 7:47:21 AM (No. 138657)
I believe this requirement is against the law. Tax returns are supposed to be private. The release of tax returns by presidential candidates is not a law anywhere. Simply a custom that some candidates started in years past. This should be fought.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
The Remnants 7/31/2019 7:54:40 AM (No. 138659)
Lost Angeles is a nightmare and San Francisco is a place where you need a map to help you avoid the poo poo on the streets. Once upon a time, people talked about San Francisco's great restaurants instead of its filthy streets.
If each state cleaned up its own act, maybe the President could have more time to focus on the country's future for our children and grandchildren.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/31/2019 7:56:58 AM (No. 138662)
Re #6, some just do not know what they are talking about. There is nothing “complacent” about the California Republicans who are in the voting minority. Are none of you in the voting minority where you live? If you are not, can you imagine how you would “rise up” to combat the actions of the majority? And would you really pick up and leave your home, where your family also reside, just because of politics?
Anonymous posters , from states they don’t identify, who slam the 5 million California Republicans with their broad, ill-informed brushes are no different than the Fake News media.
President Trump told the squad to go home and fix the places where they had come from, and then come back and tell how they did it. I keep waiting to hear how fellow LDotters/critics would fix California if they were in the minority.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Historybuff 7/31/2019 8:04:06 AM (No. 138666)
Only if Ca. demands voter ID.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MISteve 7/31/2019 8:04:06 AM (No. 138667)
California Republican posters: chill out! #6 wasn’t talking about you. You each only have one vote.
4 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
mifla 7/31/2019 8:09:23 AM (No. 138674)
Passing a law to target an individual will not hold up in court.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 7/31/2019 8:36:33 AM (No. 138694)
California is just following New York's lead passing legislation that could be used to the detriment of only one person. In this case a sitting President. Trump will be filing another lawsuit just like he did in New York. If Trump gets in front of a lefty judge, it will be declared legal. If he gets in front of a judge that follows the rule of law, it will be declared illegal. Don't be surprised if both cases end up before the Supreme Court.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
jacksin5 7/31/2019 8:47:01 AM (No. 138703)
This is in direct conflict with the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This law is, in effect a demand for PDJT to surrender his tax returns without any indication that any infraction has taken place. The 4th protects citizens from illegal search and seizure of the homes, papers, and effects.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/31/2019 9:27:37 AM (No. 138745)
FTA:
Newsom's Democratic predecessor, Jerry Brown, vetoed similar legislation in 2017. He expressed concerns about the constitutionality of the requirement. He also said it could create a "slippery slope."
"Today we require tax returns, but what would be next? Five years of health records? A certified birth certificate? High school report cards?" Brown said in his veto statement.
While Newsom released six years of tax returns during the 2018 election, Brown declined to release his while running for governor.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
TLCary 7/31/2019 9:37:19 AM (No. 138764)
The Republican Party can change its Primary Rules to negate delegates from States that implement political plots that violate candidates privacy. Trump will never win California, so don’t even bother getting on the ballot. It’s a great message to Californias: your state politicians are so scheming, partisan, and dismissive of a right to privacy that they cost you your vote. Elect some grown-ups for a change.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 7/31/2019 9:39:34 AM (No. 138769)
Not legal, most likely.
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Relax everyone.
Under the terms of the United States Constitution, someone who wants to become the president of America must be a natural born United States citizen who is at least 35 years old and who has lived as a resident of the US for 14 years.
6 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
bighambone 7/31/2019 10:46:04 AM (No. 138831)
A law such as this one, passed by the California socialists obviously targeting one political opponent, President Trump, that requires him to hand over his personal financial data without any legitimate predicate, before he can enter the California Presidential Primary Election process, you would think would be ruled to be unconstitutional, when it gets past the highly activist, politicized, and liberal Democrat dominated 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, at San Francisco.
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Even Jerry Brown knew this bill wouldn't pass judicial review when it came before him and vetoed it.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
wsdiego 7/31/2019 11:35:59 AM (No. 138866)
Cal doesn't have the right to make laws for national elections! You have to participate by the same rules as everybody else! Get it bone head?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 7/31/2019 11:39:28 AM (No. 138873)
There are five months left in this year. That is a whole lot of time for a president who probably spent the previous two years getting some amazing and embarrassing ducks in a row. We finally have a working AG, and I for one have a sneaking suspicion that the democrats are not going to know what has hit them. Trump/voters had two years stolen by the Swamp, and we are ready to come out to play. Are they? I doubt it.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Geoman 7/31/2019 2:50:27 PM (No. 139029)
If the president is not allowed on the California ballot, he stands to lose more than the state of California in the general election. He needs those California conservative's votes to help him win the so-called popular vote. In the coming election, several states have pledged all of their electoral college votes to whomever wins the nation-wide popular vote, constitutionally dubious but democrat policy none-the-less. Wouldn't it be better if the president wins the popular vote in 2020, along with an electoral college landslide?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/31/2019 3:04:56 PM (No. 139048)
Re #28, states have the right to regulate elections within their borders. Primaries.
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And, just how soon will this bill be fought over at the Supreme Court? Imagine, if the GOP had just been as forward "thinking" as the dRATS infanticide party and used some of our solid "red" states pass legislation requiring birth certificates (0bama), something one must believe is implied in our Constitution for running for President. The mind reels at all the future political tricks either side may use against each other if this legislation is not challenged and quelled. President Trump sure to Tweet on this bill. Bueller?