Posted on 02/22/2019 12:39:10 PM PST by Red Badger
The New Jersey legislature passed a bill to keep President Trump off the 2020 ballot. Expect their hard-left governor Phil Murphy to sign it. They did this in 2016 but the Republican Governor Christie wouldn’t sign it.
Their reason for doing so is they don’t have President Trump’s tax returns, which are not required by law. It’s a phony excuse. The whole thing is partisan and they are Stalinists.
The Senate voted 23-11 Thursday to require candidates for president and vice president to disclose five years of federal tax returns to appear on the ballot in the Garden State. They would have to submit the returns to the state Division of Elections, which would then post them online.
Electors from New Jersey would be prohibited from voting for candidates who don’t comply.
IT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL BUT THEY DON’T CARE
State Sen. Joseph Pennacchio, R-Morris, opposed bill S119 and tried unsuccessfully to have it also apply to candidates for governor and the state Legislature.
“Legislation like this puts us on a very slippery slope. Partisan politics should not pick who can and cannot run in this state. Elections will be decided even before the people get a chance to vote,” said Pennacchio.
“There are also constitutional issues that arise – First Amendment rights, equal protections. These will surely find themselves to the courts,” he said. “My understanding is that no other state in the union puts this type of disclosure as a requirement for somebody to run as president.”
It was mostly along party lines, but not solely. State Sen. Christopher “Kip” Bateman, R-Somerset, joined Democrats in voting for it.
There are thirty states that did the same thing in 2016, but it never went through.
Screenshot Phil Murphy, Bolshevik
Ha! This will work out well for the Bolsheviks, I’m sure.
Dr. Teeth will sign it
We need to burn Trenton to the ground - although no one would notice.
Is there any doubt any longer that the Democrats are communists?
Of course none of those voting for it want to do the same with their tax returns.
Don’t they have ‘Write-ins’ in New Jersey?...................
Where are the cries of “disenfranchisement” from the Left?
Then it would look like Newark....................
Will this apply to all 250 democrat presidential/vice presidential candidates?
Senator McCarthy was right.
“Kip”, huh? The nickname strongly suggests liberal, country club Republican. Similar to women who use hyphenated surnames.
You know what, this will help us
The democrat party of NJ is jumping the shark here
Moderates, center left dems, even leftists who don’t like Trump will think this is going too far.
The Democrat party is its own worse enemy
The voters can decide if President Trump is qualified or not, we don’t need a state legislature to do this.
No way, Jose!....................................
How about Presidential candidates proving they are natural born citizens, born here of citizen parents, before they can appear on the ballot?
One or more of the red states should counter by requiring candidates to file their birth certificate, whether or not it applies to the office being sought.
Unconstitutional.
Qualifications for president are not set by the States.
Are these people seriously delusional? Will California and New York follow suit? Elections have consequences. I’m hoping this is fake news or if this passes the president withholds all federal; funds to New Jersey. or sends troops to protect voters and confiscates N.J.’s next election ballots. Or runs a federal polling site where NJ cant touch the ballots.
Say goodbye to democracy if this law passes and survives a court challenge. Love the hypocrisy that these lowlife Democrats won’t apply the law to themselves or their mega rich vile Governor Murphy
Beat me to it - exactly!
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