California will not include Trump in the election bulletin-2020 unless he makes public his tax returns

California's governor has signed a bill requiring President Donald Trump to release his tax returns or he won't be on the state's 2020 ballot. In response, the White House threatened legal action.

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On Tuesday, July 30 California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law requiring President Donald Trump to publicly disclose his tax returns, otherwise his candidacy will not appear in the state's primary ballot in 2020 year, writes Fox News.

The Law on Tax Transparency and Accountability will also apply to candidates for governor and requires the release of tax returns over the past five years. This measure passed through the state legislature, under the leadership of the Democrats.

“These are special times, and states have a legal and moral responsibility to do everything in their power to ensure that leaders vying for the highest positions meet minimum standards and to restore public confidence,” the Democratic governor wrote in a statement.

“As one of the world's largest economies, home to one in nine voting Americans, California has a special responsibility to provide this information to presidential and gubernatorial candidates,” Newsom continued, adding that the law is constitutional because the U.S. Constitution grants states the powers to do so. .

On the subject: Trump will not be included on the ballot: California has put a tough condition on the president

Trump’s presidential campaign official Tim Murto, on the contrary, called the law unconstitutional.

“The Constitution is clear on who can be president, and states cannot add additional requirements on their own,” Murtaugh said in a statement. “What’s next, five years of medical records?”

He said that the law violates the right to the First Amendment, because states cannot tell political parties which candidates their members can or cannot vote for in the primary.

Presidential attorney Jay Sekoulou said that "an attempt by the state of California to circumvent the Constitution will be considered in court."

Although states have authority over how candidates can access the ballot, the US Constitution sets out a limited set of requirements that must be met to run for president (for example, no less than 35 years old). Earlier, the Supreme Court has already stopped the state’s attempts to add candidates to Congress through the rules for access to ballots.

By law, candidates must submit their tax returns to the Secretary of the State of California at least 98 days before March 3, 2020, when the primary elections are held.

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Trump has bypassed the 40-year-old tradition without publicizing his tax returns, as the main Democratic nominees have already done in the 2020 election of the year. Transparency advocates argue that voters have the right to know about the political deals of a political candidate.

A similar measure in 2017 was vetoed by former California Governor Jerry Brown, who considered the law unconstitutional. Before becoming governor, Newsom noted Trump's reluctance to publish tax returns and repeatedly indicated that he might try to hide important information.

Earlier this month, Trump sued the House and Resources Committee and New York City officials for their attempts to obtain information about his tax data.

But even if California law passes through the courts, Trump could have avoided conflict by not participating in the California primary elections. Since there is currently no reliable Republican candidate, he probably will not need representatives from California to win a nomination from the Republicans.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• Recall the democrats long ago trying to get official information about the taxes of the president. According to The New York Times, in October last year, Trump received from his father’s real estate company at least 413 million for assistance in avoiding taxation in the United States.
• Last year, a petition demanding the release of Trump's tax return scored more than 620 thousands of signatures. Note that every US presidential candidate has published its tax returns since 1976, but the law does not require this.
• In May, the 2019 State Senate voted for demanding that those who appear in the state’s primary ballot as presidential candidates publish their tax returns for five years, writes USA Today. This proposal was a response to the fact that Trump violated the 40-year tradition by refusing to show tax returns before his election in the 2016 year.

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