Don't the various states have differing requirements to be on the ballot?Straight from The Constitution:
Since the qualifications for candidates is stated in The Constitution states can not usurp it.
- 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 the various states have differing requirements to be on the ballot?
Russians don't know about State's rights.Yes which is why his claim was bull shit.
That may well be true, but how does this have anything to do with Russians?Russians don't know about State's rights.
Sp now CA is in the voter suppression business? Not enough to game the system by loading up on illegal aliens, but now have are circumventing the Constitution.
Oh no! FUCK! Trump might not win CA is what you're telling me? How ever will he win?
By your reasoning, (convoluted as it may be,) saying that convicted felons can't be president, now puts the country in the "candidate suppression" business.
You talking about voter suppression makes you the vote suppressor.Hell, if I say I'm running for president and I can't get on to the ballot, according to him, its voter suppression.
Like all righty logic, its retarded.
Straight from The Constitution:
Since the qualifications for candidates is stated in The Constitution states can not usurp it.
- 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.
Mr. Brown warned in his veto message that such legislation would be a slippery slope.
“A qualified candidate’s ability to appear on the ballot is fundamental to our democratic system,” he wrote. “For that reason, I hesitate to start down a road that well might lead to an ever escalating set of differing state requirements for presidential candidates.”
Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley, and a First Amendment expert, said he was confident the state was on firm legal ground. He said that states also have the right to make a similar requirement for a general election ballot, and that he hoped other states would do so.
“The Supreme Court has said that states have broad latitude over who is going to be on the ballot so long as they aren’t discriminating based on wealth and ideology,” he said. “I think the state has an important interest in that the tax returns can provide vital information to voter.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/us/politics/california-trump-tax-returns.htmlBut by asserting themselves in national elections, states find themselves in uncertain territory, said Richard H. Pildes, a professor of constitutional law at New York University.
“There’s no question there are serious constitutional issues that are posed by this, particularly because it is a national election and it has implications beyond the state of California,” Mr. Pildes said. “What other kinds of regulations can one imagine that states might impose on presidential candidates to get onto the ballot?”
So if I understand this new law, it only affects the primary ballot and Trump could still be on the general ballot? Also, Republican voters could still write him in on the primary ballot?
While I believe Trump should have released his tax returns before the 2016 election, there seems to be disagreement from experts and pols. I can see states getting into tit-for-tat scenarios like releasing military records, health records, criminal records, court records, birth certificate, salary records, property records, personnel records, personal emails, all social media activity, ATPN posting activity, whatever...
My feels say blue states doing this will just make Trump's base mad and pump them up and make them even more determined to vote Trump.
Trump's rallies:
"and hey, what about this very stupid law stupid CA just passed keeping me off presidential election ballots. Can you believe it? {hiss, boo, hollering, lock them up, don't eat CA oranges.} It looks like we are going to have to declare CA a shit-hole state {yea, MAGA, 8 more years.} You people are very beautiful and very fine people. I don't care what they say about you."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/us/politics/california-trump-tax-returns.html
So if I understand this new law, it only affects the primary ballot and Trump could still be on the general ballot? Also, Republican voters could still write him in on the primary ballot?
While I believe Trump should have released his tax returns before the 2016 election, there seems to be disagreement from experts and pols. I can see states getting into tit-for-tat scenarios like releasing military records, health records, criminal records, court records, birth certificate, salary records, property records, personnel records, personal emails, all social media activity, ATPN posting activity, whatever...
My feels say blue states doing this will just make Trump's base mad and pump them up and make them even more determined to vote Trump.
Trump's rallies:
"and hey, what about this very stupid law stupid CA just passed keeping me off presidential election ballots. Can you believe it? {hiss, boo, hollering, lock them up, don't eat CA oranges.} It looks like we are going to have to declare CA a shit-hole state {yea, MAGA, 8 more years.} You people are very beautiful and very fine people. I don't care what they say about you."
Absolutely. Please do this ASAP.
Aren't you tired of finding out candidates in all levels of government did all sorts of shady stuff in the middle of a campaign or after they are elected?
Even more so don't you want to know if the guy you're voting for has had 5 strokes and it's actually his wife or friend who's running the show?
Please drug test, do official background checks and get medical records for anyone running for office.
Extensive background checks are already run on POTUS and VPOTUS candidates
I think knowing who might be bribing the president is a perfectly reasonable thing for a state to require.
Meh, I don't think we should give even a single shit about what makes Trump's base mad. If someone is so into Trump that becoming aware of California primary ballot rules is firing them up they were going to vote anyway.
Extensive background checks are already run on POTUS and VPOTUS candidates
Who does these reports? I have never heard of them.
By who? If they are they certainly aren't made public and it's not like the government could use them for anything anyway.
After all, Trump would very likely fail any background check for federal employment, certainly any one that required a security clearance. It doesn't matter though because those can't apply to the president.
Oops I was mistaken. No background checks are done.
By who? If they are they certainly aren't made public and it's not like the government could use them for anything anyway.
After all, Trump would very likely fail any background check for federal employment, certainly any one that required a security clearance. It doesn't matter though because those can't apply to the president.
Sp now CA is in the voter suppression business? Not enough to game the system by loading up on illegal aliens, but now have are circumventing the Constitution.
Oh no! FUCK! Trump might not win CA is what you're telling me? How ever will he win?
He won't win CA, everyone who runs must provide the required disclosure and Trump has lost ground in key states. If he doesn't want to be exposed then he may skip the state.
He will sue to try to get it declared unconstitutional, and with the current makeup of the SCOTUS who knows, but if he should lose he will just skip that state and use it as a campaign talking point to demonize Democrats and paint them as the enemy.