Will not stand.
The Constitution sets the requirement for federal offices, not the states.
Combined with the popular vote strategy this could devastate the electoral college.
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.
The Constitution does not require a tax return. The SCOTUS would and should strike it down.
They must be very afraid that President Trump will win Washington.
If a candidate gets more than 5% of the presidential vote, then that candidates party attains major party status in the state. I voted for Johnson for just that reason, and he barely failed. This decision will likely make the Libertarian party a major force in WA politics.
Hmmmm..... Let’s see.... Just how many ideas for Trump Executive Orders.. Washington is now part of Canada (build a virtual wall/border). Give residents 24 hours to leave, then enact EO. If Canada rejects them, too bad; let them rot.
Another Executive Order idea - Enact massive tariffs.
More later.
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.
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.
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.
Red States can play the same game too. Remember there are more Red States than Blue States.
Yet another blue state doing anti-democratic stuff to disenfranchise voting citizens.
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’.
Same for all the Dems ?
Dear Washington’s state Senate:
I know you all don’t know about ex post facto laws or bills of Attainder, but even if President Trump released his returns, no one in the WA state Senate could read and understand the returns.
Why?
Because you all are dumb shits.
Sincerely,
5.56mm
It is way past time for Washington to be split into Eastern Washington and Western Washington.
The qualifications for being President are outlined in the Constitution. Nowhere is releasing a tax return listed. SCOTUS will overturn, if it’s passed in WA.
I thought the Democrats were against voter suppression.
It’s a national election. Federal rules apply, not state.