California State Senator Mike McGuire (D-Healdsburg) and Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) say in this press release that they will soon introduce a bill to bar presidential candidates from the ballot who don’t release their federal income tax returns before the primary or election. Such a bill would plainly violate the U.S. Constitution, as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1995 in U.S. Term Limits v Thornton. Thanks to Carla Marinucci for this news.
See also Chandler Walker v Miller. Candaites couldn’t be required to take drug test for 4th Amendment reasons.
Will the Trump HACKS in the various Trump State legislatures propose a Const Amdt expelling all Donkey regimes OUT of the USA ???
But how is this different than any other ballot access restriction? It sounds like they’re only barring them from the ballot and they can still run a write-in campaign. And in any case, as you’ve explained repeatedly, the real candidates are the electors and this doesn’t require them to do anything. That’s how Bernie Sanders became a write in candidate against his will in California. He wasn’t really a candidate under state law, the electors were.
Folks should look at the Federalist — about why the definition of Electors and elected officer qualifications has constitutional language status —
i.e. to NOT have the legislative body HACKS play their evil rotted games with such definitions.