Posted on 03/17/2019 3:49:48 AM PDT by Libloather
No state law can violate the Constitution. The Supremes overturn state laws all the time. The US Supreme Court can nullify laws that are unconstitutional if appropriately challenged by a person or entity with standing.
It’s not constitutional, but NJ has done the same. If allowed to stand, it would be the same as nullification, which on two occasions (not counting the Civil War) was struck down (Adams, Jackson).
If allowed to stand, it would affect the popular vote, which may be their goal-—to deny Trump a popular vote victory.
Excepting that Tax returns are BOTH privileged.....and NOT required under Federal Rules.
The admission records for their children’s colleges, and all paperwork associated with the selection process for the entire incoming freshman class that year. Same with pre-school for their children. And all receipts for small purchases, to ensure they paid sales tax for all purchases, especially out-of-state purchases. After all, we have to anticipate new scandals as well as old ones.
It’s the ridiculous requirement of submitting tax returns to be allowed on the ballot.
What’s next? A requirement for publishing full front and rear nude photos to be allowed on the ballot.....that makes exactly the same sense as the tax thing.
Do you think that would be constitutional and pass the SCOTUS?
Or a requirement to be a specific gender to be on the ballot, or shorter than a specified height.
It won’t pass muster.....
Why not just pass a law keeping any candidate off the ballot unless he/she/it is a sworn communist? That’s the way the totalitarians do it, isn’t it? And it would be just as likely to withstand a constitutional challenge.
Article 2 does say this:
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress
But Amendment 14 says this:
But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, ..., is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Amendment 12
The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and 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;
This law has nothing to do with electors. This is about who can be on their ballot.
“The federal government should pass a bill stopping any funding to WA state until a corrupt Mueller fishing investigation is done on every politician who voted for this.”
That will be a neat trick what with the RATs in charge of the House.
It’s all good. I believe they did the very same thing to Hussein because of his missing birth certificate.
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Surely you make this statement in jest? I do not recall any states requiring Hussein to submit his BC. Many secretaries of state were actually sued to force them to determine Obozo’s NBC bonafides before putting him on the state ballot but they refused and the courts were worthless. Natural born citizenship is a Constitutional pre-requisite to becoming president. There is no such requirement regarding tax returns, medical records, school/college transcripts, etc. Indeed, there are severe penalties for unauthorized disclosure of these private records.
Portland, Oregan is rapidly assuming the title of Reddest City in America. That’s RED in it’s historical meaning with the hammer and sickle.
Red States can play the same game too. Remember there are more Red States than Blue States.
Righty oh!
‘The Constitution of the United States, Article I, Section 9, paragraph 3 provides that: “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law will be passed.”’
Yet another blue state doing anti-democratic stuff to disenfranchise voting citizens.
This is about saying who may or may not appear on the ballot for office. Not about electors.
Trump would have to have a write-in campaign. If voter vote “straight party Republican” would that suffice for the Republican presidential nominee to get a vote?
Usually independents need to gather X number of signatures to appear on a ballot (primary or general) OR a Party (Green, Commie Red, Liberterian, Constitution, etc) needs to get enough signatures to put its candidates on a ballot.
Do Party candidates who have the Party’s nomination usually have to jump hoops to get on each state’s ballot?
This is a state rejection the national party’s decision on its Party nominee “unless” that chosen candidate meets their law targeted specifically at him.
Expect the law to be repealed in 2021 no matter whether Trump wins or loses in 2020.
Dibs on the rope, pitchforks & torches concession.
Franchises available in your area.
Someone else on the rails, feathers and tar? Maybe we could develop some synergy.
</sarc - maybe>
Age and Citizenship requirements - US Constitution, Article II, Section 1
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Don’t see anything about taxes. I’m just sayin’.
“This is about saying who may or may not appear on the ballot for office. Not about electors“
But the “election” is a device ordained by the State Legislature for the purpose of appointing electors. So of course it is about electors - what else do you think it’s about?
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