By Staff Writer California’s highest court will decide Thursday whether the state can require presidential candidates, including President Trump, to disclose their tax returns in order to appear on the state’s primary ballot.Source: California’s top court to decide whether state can force Trump to disclose tax returns...
On November 21, the California Supreme Court issued a ruling in Patterson v Padilla, finding that the new law requiring presidential primary candidates to disclose their tax returns if they want to be on a presidential primary ballot violates the California Constitution. The opinion is unanimous.Source: California Supreme Court Unanimously Rules that California Tax Returns-Ballot Law Violates the State Constitution...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) – Already cast as a constitutional “trampling” by a federal judge, California’s bid to reveal President Donald Trump’s tax returns to primary voters sputtered again Wednesday before the state Supreme Court.Source: Justices Skeptical of California’s Demand of Tax Returns From Candidates...
Here is the California Secretary of State’s calendar for various filing deadlines for the March 2020 presidential primary. The calendar says the Secretary of State will announce by December 6 which presidential candidates are on various presidential primary ballots.Source: California Media Fails to Inform Readers of State’s Failure to Appeal President Tax Returns-Ballot Decision...
On October 1, California’s Secretary of State said he will appeal the October 1 decision that invalidated the new California law on tax returns and the ballot. Thanks to Steve Kamp and Thomas Jones for this news.Source: California Will Appeal Tax Returns-Ballot Case to Ninth Circuit...
On October 1, U.S. District Court Judge Morrison England issued a 24-page opinion, explaining why he had orally enjoined California’s new tax returns-ballot bill on September 19.Source: U.S. District Court Judge Explains Why He Enjoined the California Tax Returns-Ballot Law on September 19...
President Trump’s July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky seems to have been the “straw that broke the camel’s back” for House Democrats’ long-running clamor to initiate impeachment proceedings.Source: WANG: Take It From This Campaign Finance Attorney: Trump Is In The Clear In My Area Of Law...
SACRAMENTO — A California-based federal judge said today he intends to issue a preliminary injunction suspending a new state law that would require Donald Trump and other candidates to release their tax returns to appear on primary ballots.Source: Federal judge to suspend California law compelling Trump tax release...
Forty-seven years ago, California’s voters opened the state’s presidential primaries to all nationally recognized candidates.Source: How California’s voters may have saved Trump from releasing his taxes...
How much has President Trump raised from Californians this year? Which neighborhoods are giving him the most money? Could it be yours? We break it down in six graphs.Source: Trump’s California funders—where they are and what they’re giving...
