Posted on 06/24/2018 7:29:23 AM PDT by mandaladon
The latest resistance plan against President Donald Trump's 2020 election campaign includes attempts in at least 25 states to pass a law that requires presidential candidates to release their tax returns to appear on the ballot.
President Trump is the only modern-day president to refuse to release his personal tax returns, so conceivably a law passed to require that could block him from the ballot. The issue with that trolling plan is no state has been able to officially pass a law requiring it.
Even deep blue California and New Jersey have vetoed the laws after it had passed both state chambers, but both Rhode Island and Maryland are currently working such a law in their state Houses after passing it in their Senate chambers, according to Axios.
Former Gov. Chris Christie, D-N.J., had called the attempt in his state a "transparent political stunt" in vetoing the law, while Gov. Jerry Brown, D-Calif., said it "sets a 'slippery slope' precedent for what individuals states could require of candidates," per Axios.
Such laws might wind up being battled in the Supreme Court, too, because they might not be constitutional. The top U.S. court has ruled in the past states nor the federal government can create new requirements for House or Senate candidates, AP reports, which likely would extend to the head of the executive branch, too.
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One thing you notice about liberals after years of studying them is that they never do that. They never argue for more government intrusion in lives, nationalization of industries, emptying prisons, sky high taxes, loss of freedom and liberty. They can never show how those policies lead to more prosperity and freedom for all.
Also force the revelation of the source of all college scholarship money. I am positive that Obastard attended college with foreign scholarship money and that is why his academic records are sealed. Either Singapore or Kenya paid for his education. I am certain of it, and eventually it will come out.
“Feinstein’s luckiest day was when Dan White shot George Moscone and Harvey Milk. Took her from local bureaucrat to national scourge in moments”
I’ve come to be very sorry she wasn’t in the office with Moscone and Milk when Dan White stopped by! Behind that Wookie hairdoo, is a very evil and calculating woman, who has helped make her third husband a muiti-millionaire through her public office.
It IS a constitutional requirement that you be a natural born citizen to become president. Barack Obama REFUSED to show evidence to those who legitimately requested to see proof of this. These states didn’t seem to have an issue with that.
I guarantee Trump will release his personal tax return next year for this year’s income. He will be able to file on a postcard because he made his annual salary and gave it all away.
It’s pretty well-established that Saudi Prince Alwaleed paid for Obama’s Harvard credentials. The trail goes from Obama to Vernon Jarrett to Percy Sutton to Khalid al-Mansour to Prince Alwaleed.
Better idea: Disallow Electors from their states should they do this. There is already precedent for disallowing EC electors' votes.
Twenty five states are homesick for an Obama economy.
Actually , Congress is instructed by the Twentieth Amendment, Section Three to determine whether or not the President Elect shall have qualified to be legally President or they, Congress, must name someone who is qualified. By the term shall have qualified, they can only be referring to the eligibility requirements in Article Two. This means it is the job of Congress to enforce those requirements or we end up with a usurper to the office of President. A usurper is not a President nor can ever hold the office of President. We are told this in plain language right there in the eligibility requirements themselves as they start out with the two words, NO Person.
If you are not eligible and Congress does not enforce the Twentieth Amendment, Section Three, those two words all by themselves keep you from being a legal President. Congress did not enforce the requirements and thus broke their oaths to support the Constitution.
This is not the first time Democrats have tried to pull this kind of thing. In 1860 Lincoln’s name was not on the ballot in the South.
But let’s say they were able to pull this off. Then, they could invoke their “States’ Compact” scheme to award their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote.
It's not because he was worried it's unconstitutional.
It's because he knows there are several Democrat candidates coming up in 2020 who - wisely - won't fully release taxes now that Trump was successful in doing so.
It is also a requirement that you be thirty-five years of age to serve as President. Obama did not present proof of that either since we have never seen a real birth certificate other than the one proven to fake.
Ah jeez.
They’re dragging up tax returns again?
Who cares?
I missed that somehow, but it would make sense. Obama hung out with foreign students and people at Harvard seemed to have the impression he was a foreigner. That also clarifies that Jarrett connection that seems odd. What a tangled ball of snakes are around and working with Obama.
What?
Remember we have a corrupt Congress too so some liberal judge would rule that withholding states funds was against the law, our no balls congress would agree because that’s what they want too, they hate Trump too.
“So their plan is to give 50% of the country no option to vote for their leader. Sounds like a hell of a plan...”
Perfect! Kick all of them out of the union until they want to start observing the Constitution. Being from Commiefornia, I’d be all too happy to have this state cotinue to be governed by a Republican President.
Any set of requirements that exceed those listed in the Constitution are .... unconstitutional.
war plan
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