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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAre there any states in good position to pass laws for presidential candidates
to reveal their tax returns in order to get on the ballot?
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Are there any states in good position to pass laws for presidential candidates (Original Post)
Baitball Blogger
Oct 2018
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Any good size blue state -- New York, California, Illinois, I suppose but ...
hedda_foil
Oct 2018
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SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)1. Couldn't be done
Constitution lays out requirement to be President; 35 years old, natural born citizen. Thats it.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)2. Any good size blue state -- New York, California, Illinois, I suppose but ...
Trump would likely ignore them even if it kept his name off the ballot there. It would depend, of course, on whether he could be convinced that he needed to do it in order to elect Congressional and state Republicans, who probably wouldn't vote at all if Trump wasn't on the ballot.
It's a great idea, but it would have to be a state like Florida or Texas where Tiny the Toad had a lot of skin in the game, so to speak.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)3. Clearly unconstitutional.
Perhaps parties can do it for primary access. But Im not a lawyer. I just play one on DU.
former9thward
(32,025 posts)4. The California legislature passed that law.
Governor Jerry Brown vetoed because it was unconstitutional.