Posted on 07/11/2019 3:53:52 PM PDT by Coronal
SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers are seeking once again to force President Trump to release his tax returns by blocking access to the state primary election ballot if he does not.
The matter is now in the hands of Gov. Gavin Newsom, after the state Senate gave final approval Thursday to SB27, which would require presidential candidates to release their last five years of income tax returns in order to be eligible for the primary election in California.
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Unconstitutional and just about the stupidest thing to come out of the once- great state of californication Today, anyway. Snicker snicker snicker. The whole world laughed at these clowns
Only the Communist Party puts a gun to your head to force you to do something.
Laws are written to apply equally to all.
Except for CA when they only apply to Republicans.
In typical Democrat hypocrisy, a made-up requirement for the Republican primary ballot will be imposed on Trump, but a real requirement (natural born citizen) for Harris will be overlooked for the Democrat primary ballot. She is an anchor baby of two foreign nationals.
No I was referring to the last two U.S. Senate elections, not state senate. The ‘Jungle Primary’ that Cal uses says the top two finishers in the primary make the final ballot, regardless if they are in the same party. So in 2016 and 2014 Californians got to pick which democrat they wanted in the U.S. Senate.
Although born and raised in California, I’ve been living in Missouri for the better part of the last half century. I don’t regret leaving the Golden State one bit.
Roberts is a communists Democrat.
Thank you, Mr. Monk.
“... a real requirement (natural born citizen) for Harris will be overlooked for the Democrat primary ballot.”
The states have carte blanche to decide how they pick electors. I see nothing unconstitutional about this bill.
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So California, and all the states with Democrat legislatures as soon as they assumed power, could decide that their electors would always go to the Democrats, even if their voters wanted to change their minds, effectively precluding us from ever having a Republican president? That’s not what our founding fathers intended, even though the Democrats, developing a sudden yen for language literalism, could argue to the contrary.
Gotta sue to make sure they can’t set precedent.
I swear the godforsaken state I live in is infested with commies and the most hateful people on the planet
That would be an issue if California chose electors that wanted an unqualified candidate. It has nothing to do with this. And if California electors did choose an unqualified candidate then they'd just be wasting their votes.
Exactly. If they can’t hold a constitutional election, hold their electoral votes hostage.
Actually, if all the states with Republican legislators tried that strategy we wouldn't have a Democrat President.
But yes, it's perfectly legal. The legislatures get to choose the electors. It so happens they've chosen to effect that by holding an election, but they don't have to. This isn't some hyper-literal reading of the Constitution. It is the process that the document lays out and exactly what the framers intended. Their intent was that the states pick the President, the executive officer of the union of states. The only election of a federal office holder specified in the original Constitution is for your House Representative.
California- Native American for’Moronic people who screwed up beautiful state with liberalism.’
Invalid request. Just ignore it.
It’s a law aimed at a specific person. It fits the constitutional definition of a bill of attainder.
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I think a bill of attainder declares a particular person guilty of a crime—a common Parliamentary tactic of recent memory for the Founding Fathers. Of course the law is aimed at President Trump, but his name is nowhere in it. It would apply to anyone. In any case, as near as I can tell, the state of California is under no obligation by the Constitution to place anyone’s name on its Presidential ballot. I say, let them go for it. They think they’re being oh, so clever, but it will come back to bite them. In fact let all of the states controlled by the dems do it. I believe it will increase President Trump’s votes in the rest of the country.
On the other hand, excluding Lincoln from the ballot in 1860 did not end well for the democrat-controlled slave states. Perhaps that should give the democrats pause in 2020.
Blackmail and civil war bull sht.
Of course the deep state courts are filled with traitors willing to help California take over the country
Neo-Fascist Kalifornia
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