On Thursday, the California Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump does not have to release his tax returns to be listed on the California 2020 Primary Ballot.
In the unanimous ruling, it strikes down Senate Bill 27 which was passed by the California Legislator and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom which would have made president Donald Trump release five years of his tax return to be on the primary ballot.
“Today’s ruling is a victory for every California voter,” Jessica Millan Patterson, chairwoman of the California Republican Party, said in a statement. “We are pleased that the courts saw through the Democrats’ petty partisan maneuvers and saw this law for what it is—an unconstitutional attempt to suppress Republican voter turnout.”
To read the full California Supreme Court decision, click here.
The following responses was issued by the Dhillon Law Group along with a statement from Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez.
Sacramento — Managing Partner of the Dhillon Law Group Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) representing plaintiffs Republican National Committee, California Republican Party, and three Trump-supporting Republican voters in Melendez et al. v. Newsom et al., issued the following statements regarding the California Supreme Court’s today striking down California’s Senate Bill 27, which required that presidential candidates to publicly release their last five years of tax filings to be allowed on the California primary election ballot.
“We would have a Tower of Babel and a cacophony if we allowed individual states to mandate additional requirements beyond those imposed by the United States Constitution,” Dhillon said. “The further compounding of this bad law by the attorney general and the secretary of state seeking to enforce, defend, and justify it even after a federal court enjoined the law, just shows California lawmakers and California Democrats having no concern over the constitutionality of their actions.”
“These courtroom battles over this clearly unconstitutional law are a waste of state resources and taxpayer dollars,” Dhillon said. “I hope that after this decisive ruling from the final authority on California law, our Supreme Court, we will put this matter to rest and California as well as other Democratic-dominated jurisdictions will stop trying to suppress Republican votes and play fair and by the book. Voters can make the decision of whether disclosure of tax returns matters to them or not.”
For more information on the lawsuit, click here: https://www.dhillonlaw.com/rnc-ca-gop-republican-voters-v-gavin-newsom/
To schedule an interview with Dhillon, please contact Matt Shupe at (415) 735-8491 or [email protected]
Melendez Responds to Trump Tax Return Ruling
SACRAMENTO – Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez, R-Lake Elsinore, released this statement following the California Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling regarding President Trumps tax returns being a requirement for the March 3rd Primary Election:
“Governor Newsom’s signing of SB 27 was clearly a political stunt to suppress the speech of millions of Californians at a time when he should be focusing on the real problems facing California. His focus should be the ever-growing homelessness crisis, sky-high gas prices, affordable housing, sustainable water supplies and alleviating the tax burdens on Californians who face the extremely high-cost of living in a ‘tax-first’ state. The California Supreme Court is sending a message to Governor Newsom: end this political theater because Californians deserve better.”
Assemblywoman Melendez is the lead plaintiff in Melendez v. Newsom which sought to invalidate Senate Bill 27 from taking effect and prevented President Trump from appearing on the ballot during the March 3rd Primary Election. The California State Supreme Court ruled against Governor Newsom and legislative Democrats today in their unanimous decision in Patterson v. Padilla and emphasized that the merits of SB 27 were unconstitutional.
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Andrew Yang 2020
Why Andrew Yang? What’s he got to offer?
He’s not an out of touch baby boomer. He’s an entrepreneur with experience in job creation. Trump took advantage of swing state voters in Ohio, Michigan, Virginia lying that he’d reopen outdated factories and mines. Logical minded people know it’s the machines and robots taking those jobs, not immigrants. Yang sees this and knows that Americans should be reaping the benefits of the automation age in forms of dividends, and for it not be funneled into the top to make the rich richer. Yang is a forward thinker and liked by both conservatives and liberals. Watch his interview with popular conservative pundit Ben Shapiro and hear him speak.
Baby Boomer? How does being born in 1995 makes a “baby boomer?” My great-grandparents are baby boomer, pal!
If robots and machine are taking over jobs formerly held by humans, then maybe we will need fewer humans to be born. As to who should benefit from technology? Those who risked capital and time to create automation. Why should the general public get dividends? They did not create the automation and the jobs that came with those. The general public was given access to technology to use to make their lives easier. Of course, those who risks their money to create system which benefit the majority people world-wide, are reaping benefits (as they should). Nothing wrong with funneling the dividends to the top to make those creative people richer. They deserve it! Why is that a problem, BL ZeBub?
Rosemary Ross is right, if you’re not valuable to the market, you might as well just die. All hail the owning class for providing us with iPhones and apps to make me more bigoted and depressed. I’m not creative enough to be the next Bill Gates, and my grandkids probably won’t have opportunities for an entry level job (the kind me and fellow boomers always talk about) my generation was able to have due to automation, so I’m having my tubes tied tomorrow. The top 0.1% in the USA own more wealth than the bottom 90%, let’s make that even worse so I can live out my final days on a park bench!
OLD PHART — If your grand kids are lucky enough to have some creativity, they will find jobs with no problems. Many jobs around today will disappear in the future, so make sure you advise them to really get a lot of advice about what field they should study for and go into. Automation will be the order of the day and only truly creative idea people will do well.
There is nothing wrong with 1% of the population holding the wealth! Creative people who take chances should be rewarded. The 90% have choices in this country. American is one of the few countries where one an get ahead providing they apply themselves in a field which will be relevant in the future. America is the land of opportunity. No other country offers such probabilities. If someone doesn’t make it, it’s their own damned fault.
Hey, BL ZeBub! What is Yang’s justification for Americans “reaping the benefits of automation” and AI? Technology has enabled Americans and others to take advantage of these systems to use them to improve their own financial standing. That is a far better “dividend” than just giving monetary ones to them.
Take THAT, Governor NUISANCE!
Nuisance Newsom probably has his nose out-of-joint and his goons will try to appeal this again. Tough luck, Gavie baby! Nice try!
I’m no Trump lover, but the State Supreme Court is right. The idiot California Legislature has no business imposing additional qualification requirements for candidates for federal offices.
Robert, more importantly California spends our tax dollars wastefully suing the federal government (you and me) for frivolous bs. California with high taxes and lots of wasteful spending.
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