California — RNC National Committeewoman and Vice President of the Republican National Lawyers Association, Harmeet K. Dhillon, issued the following statement regarding Senate Bill 27, which was signed by Governor Gavin Newsom today, and requires presidential candidates to make public their last five years of tax filings to be a allowed on the California primary ballot.
“Make no mistake: SB27 is a cynical and illegal voter suppression scheme whose sole purpose is to deny California voters their Constitutionally protected right to vote for qualified candidates for President, and to suppress the Republican vote in California not just for President but also for all the down-ticket races, ballot measures, and power grabs the Democrats have in store for the 2020 ballot.
Even Congress is not allowed to ask for an individual’s tax returns without a proper legislative purpose, and this attempted “workaround” through blue states, mocks our separation of powers and our system of checks and balances.
Beyond this cynical Trump persecution du jour, this bad law is a Pandora’s box which may lead other jurisdictions to impose similarly frivolous and unconstitutional requirements on Presidential candidates, with no policy or legal justification.
It’s sad that Governor Newsom decided to ignore the sage and measured approach taken by his predecessor, Governor Brown, in vetoing similar legislation due to the manifest illegality and policy implications of this effort. And yet again, California voters are used as pawns by a Democratic Party substituting cheap gimmicks such this law, for policy solutions to California’s many ills. This ill-conceived law is doomed to failure.”
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People I’ve spoken with (of both political persuasions) are so disgusted with this “law” that it might actually wind up in President Trump’s reelection. Wouldn’t that be a slap-in-the-face to the likes of Newsom and his ilk? I wonder if Newsom thought this through?
Harmeet Dhillon is right-on-the-money!
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