California Government Attorney Tells Court Individuals Don’t Have the Right to Run for Office

At the oral argument on September 19 in Trump v Padilla, California Deputy Attorney General Peter H. Chang told the court, “Individuals don’t have the right to run for office.” However, the Copenhagen Meeting Document, an international human rights declaration signed by the United States, says “The participating states will respect the right of citizens to seek political or public office, individually or as representatives of political parties or organizations.” See 7.5 of the Document of the Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, a document that the U.S. signed in June 1990.

That document is part of the Helsinki Accords.

See this article from Politico, which quotes Chang.


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California Government Attorney Tells Court Individuals Don’t Have the Right to Run for Office — 14 Comments

  1. Chang – one more LAWLESS TYRANT in the CASSOR —

    CA Soviet Socialist Republic.


    Specific qualifications in Consts and laws for elective offices mean ZERO in the REPTILE/SPIDER SO-CALLED BRAINS OF TYRANTS ???


    PR and Appv and TOTSOP

  2. No right to vote with an uncensored ballot and no right to ask fellow citizens to vote for you with their already censored ballots. Isn’t this equivalent to an authoritarian aristocracy?

  3. DFR-

    USA Const 14-2 for the specified offices.

    Other offices – screwed voters. See 1866 Senate debates/amdts.

  4. Back in 2008 Democrats were furious that several citizens such as Orly Taitz filed lawsuits that then Senator Obama show his long form birth certificate to prove he was a natural born citizen. Being a natural born citizen is a requirement to run for office. So having candidates show proof of a long form birth certificate would be a satisfactory request. However we were marginalized as Birthers and worse Racists. I think anyone running for public office should show birth certificate or residency requirement and background check to show they aren’t a felon. But nowhere in the Constitution or any federal law requiring that tax returns are required. So the same party that didn’t want to show proof of a Constitutional Requirement wants proof of something that isn’t a Constitutional Requirement.

  5. NBC = AT BIRTH ALLEGIANCE TO A NATION-STATE VIA FATHER’S NATION-STATE STATUS AT SUCH BIRTH.

    PLACE OF BIRTH MEANS ZERO.

    NATURALIZATION = AFTER BIRTH CHANGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO A NATION-STATE.
    —-
    TOTAL LEGAL MORONS [TOO MANY TO COUNT] SCREWED UP THE OBAMA MESS.

    B. OBAMA’S FATHER WAS A BRIT CITIZEN/SUBJECT THE SECOND THAT B. OBAMA WAS BORN – WHERE EVER B. OBAMA WAS BORN.

    THUS – THE EVIL FLIPPANT PUNK B. OBAMA PULLED OFF THE ALL TIME SUBVERSION OF THE USA CONST DUE TO ARMIES OF MORONS – ESP. IN LAW SKOOOLS AND THE ZOMBIE BRAIN DEAD MORON RED COMMUNIST MEDIA LOVING TO HAVE THE FIRST BLACK PREZ.

    ALL OF HIS OFFICIAL ACTS IN 2009-2017 ONLY HAVE A DE FACTO STATUS.

    SEE *COLOR OF OFFICE* CASES.

  6. Sadly, the U.S. Supreme Court has stopped short of stating whether or not candidacy is itself a First Amendment-protected activity. This has left it up to the States to decide and they have imposed all sorts of regulations.

  7. Candidacy was something that was being debate for the Civil War Reconstruction amendments, but, alas, the 15th Amendment was a weak one. Had the liberals prevailed on the 15th amendment, it might be easier to look at candidacy as a protected liberty interest.

  8. What State does NOT specify the required qualifications in the State’s Const. for top/important State/local offices ???

    — to NOT let minority rule gerrymander HACKS in legislative bodies rig elections.

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