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Showing Original Post only (View all)California Supreme Court says law requiring presidential candidates to turn over tax returns is inva [View all]
Source: CNN
"The California Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled the state's new law that requires presidential candidates to disclose their tax returns for the previous five years to get on the ballot is invalid."
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/21/politics/california-tax-returns-trump/index.html
If we can't get this done in CA, it doesn't look promising for the rest of the country.
Of course, I expected it to be upheld and Trump would simply ignore the state since he had no chance of winning it.
I really didn't expect a unanimous ruling on this.
Any ideas on how they can amend this to pass scrutiny?
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PBC_Democrat
Nov 2019
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I don't understand this at all (the ruling). What about the overriding concern of conflicts of ...
SWBTATTReg
Nov 2019
#1
Have no details on the rationale but if it was unanimous, then Goodwin Liu agreed.
CincyDem
Nov 2019
#3
Exactly. Not surprised at this at all. I thought it was stupid for the governor to push it. You
still_one
Nov 2019
#7
What we need is a transparency law over who provides the money to anyone that
cstanleytech
Nov 2019
#8
Yes, I was just joking about the similar name. Thanks for this info on the "other" JG. n/t
TheRickles
Nov 2019
#25
Dude, it's the Constitution. The Law of the Land. The Court had no choice in the matter.
Nitram
Nov 2019
#33