Bravo Rhode island. No pop votes in 2020

[Laura PourMeADrink]

Ha! No Dolt 45 on ballot unless he turns over his tax returns!

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[Scurrilous]

1. K&R

[AlexSFCA]

2. watch trump's SC overturn this law before 2020

[Wounded Bear]

4. I'm sure they'll challenge...

I wonder if there is any precedent. This isn't in the Constitution, unless you argue that a state can't exceed the stipulations in Article 2, which are limited to age and citizenship. Might be an interesting fight.

[VMA131Marine]

5. It seems to me that this is just another form of financial disclosure

that candidates are already required to do for the Federal Elections Commission although that isn't in the Constitution either. There is a danger that if this law gets struck down then candidates for Federal elections won't have to disclose anything that does not pertain to the minimal Constitutional requirements for office. This elimination of Federal control of elections is what Republicans have wanted for a long time.

[former9thward]

7. U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton (514 US 779) 1995 would invalidate the law.

The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision (by the court's liberals with Kennedy as a swing) decided states could not impose their own restrictions on ballot access over and above the Constitution.

The Constitution prohibits States from adopting Congressional qualifications in addition to those enumerated in the Constitution. A state congressional term limits amendment is unconstitutional if it has the likely effect of handicapping a class of candidates and "has the sole purpose of creating additional qualifications indirectly." Furthermore, "...allowing individual States to craft their own congressional qualifications would erode the structure designed by the Framers to form a 'more perfect Union.'"

They can have procedural barriers such as signatures and reasonable ballot fees but not substantial barriers. Tax returns affecting a candidate's privacy would be considered a substantial barrier.

Trump is not the only person who has refused tax return information. John Kerry and John McCain refused to show their wives' returns (which in both cases was the main source of the family wealth) when demanded. Romney and McCain only would show the first two pages of their own returns. Bernie Sanders would not show his returns.

[manor321]

3. Awesome

Also, I guess Bernie won't run there.

[Garrett78]

6. In a winner-take-all system, we need some battleground states to do this.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. Gotta look at the composition of each state house

Right? Would be a grand disparity in pop vote vs electors if it came to pass. If perchance he got zero in RI and others like CA

[Garrett78]

9. Yeah, he's going to lose RI, CA and MD regardless.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. Yes...but he would get zero votes. Guess massive

Write in. Hey our luck...they can't read or write. Lol

[Garrett78]

11. For sure, but we have this crazy system where the popular vote doesn't matter.

And where voters in small states have much more say than voters in large states.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. Of course! Given. Just saying that if he is still

Around and he got zero popular votes from some states...would be a huge margin (overall, grand total)....way bigger than what Hillary beat him by. Like he would get zero votes (less write ins) from CA if they pass a law!!!