California Supreme Court says law requiring presidential candidates to turn over tax returns is inva

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16. Here is what the judges decided ...

Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, joined by Associate Justices Goodwin Liu, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Carol Corrigan, Leondra Kruger, Ming Chin, and Joshua Groban, wrote the following in the court's opinion:

"The Legislature may well be correct that a presidential candidate's income tax returns could provide California voters with important information. But article II, section 5(c) embeds in the state Constitution the principle that, ultimately, it is the voters who must decide whether the refusal of a 'recognized candidate throughout the nation or throughout California for the office of President of the United States' to make such information available to the public will have consequences at the ballot box."

I disagree with this decision, because it's tell us voters that we have to reject a candidate or accept a candidate without acquiring all the pertinent information to make our decisions.

... to make such information available to the public will have consequences at the ballot box.

Well duh!
If the candidate has a conflict of interest, we should be able to know that and of course it could have consequences at the ballot box.