Last month a federal judge blocked a law in California created to force Donald Trump to make public his tax returns. The same judge just tossed the law altogether, calling it an unconstitutional limitation on ballot access, among other things.
Today we require tax returns, but what would be next? Five years of health records? A certified birth certificate? High school report cards? And will these requirements vary depending on which political party is in power?
Judge England also noted that these sorts of limitations “amounts to a functional bar against the ability (of a citizen) to cast an effective vote for a candidate (of their choice) to act as the ‘standard-bearer who best represents [their] ideologies and preferences,” simply because they refuse to cave to some local unconstitutional mandate.
As I noted a few weeks back when the law was blocked,
Federal elections are a matter of federal law. At no point has Congress successfully passed a law requiring candidates for Federal office to submit their “tax returns to partisans to be leaked to the media.”
California’s SB27 was untenable on multiple fronts. Such that the judge agreed with every objection Trump’s lawyers had. Then added to that the obstruction of “the right to associate for political purposes, the right to vote, and the right to express political preferences.'”
Talk about getting stuffed. On top of which, Trump won again and no, I am not getting tired of watching unhinged, crazy left-wing nutjobs lose.
| Reason
