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Trump Off NJ Ballot in 2020

Praxas said:
So tell us where in the Constitution it says you have to have X amount of signatures to be on the ballot even though that's a law MANY states have? We are talking about requirements to be on the BALLOT, not requirements to be PRESIDENT. Jesus you people don't bother to read.
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there are 2 court cases that have already decided this when states have tried to mess with federal requirements for office.

“Allowing individual states to adopt their own qualifications for congressional service would be inconsistent with the Framers’ vision of a uniform national legislature representing the people of the United States,” Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the majority in U.S. Term Limits Inc. v. Thornton. “If the qualifications set forth in the text of the Constitution are to be changed, that text must be amended.”

After three years of legal battles, the Supreme Court sided with the congressman in Powell v. McCormack.

Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote for the court’s majority that “in judging the qualifications of its members, Congress is limited to the standing qualifications prescribed in the Constitution.” Since Powell met those qualifications, “the House was without power to exclude him from its membership,” he concluded.

while these applied to congressional offices i see no reason that it wouldn't apply to a presidential candidate as well.
If he meets the qualification by the federal government then he meets the requirement.

This will go to court and will probably lose. it overreaches too far.
 
Perotista said:
I never understood the fascination with tax returns of the candidates. Then again when I became interested in politics, no candidates disclosed their tax returns. That was back in 1956, I think Ford was the first one to do so, his was but a summary. I think the opposing party and opposing candidate are interested in tax returns for a gotcha moment.

According to the law, tax returns are supposed to be private. Why the desire to make them public, is that desire actually going against the law? Those who want Trump's tax returns, would they vote for him if he releases them. You know they wouldn't. They just want a chance at a gotcha, more or less a political vendetta, call it free opposition research.

Show me one voter who would vote for Trump if he released his tax returns that didn't vote for him only because he failed to release his tax returns, then I might reconsider. As for New Jersey, Trump doesn't have a snowball's chance in Hades of ever winning there. He might as well avoid all campaigning, all operations there and spend that time, energy and money elsewhere in swing states. Perhaps New Jersey is doing him a favor. New York, California, Vermont, Massachusetts, etc might as well follow suit. No chance for him in any of those states. He ought to just cede them now and concentrate on the states he can win.
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Hell people don't understand that them getting less of a return doesn't mean they paid more in taxes.
yet they want to see trumps tax returns for what purpose?

it isn't like they are going to understand those either.
 
Praxas said:
So tell us where in the Constitution it says you have to have X amount of signatures to be on the ballot even though that's a law MANY states have? We are talking about requirements to be on the BALLOT, not requirements to be PRESIDENT. Jesus you people don't bother to read.
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Did you read the article: "The measure requires presidential and vice presidential candidates to release five years of federal tax returns to appear on the state’s ballot." This law is specific on who it targets, that is unconstitutional, now they might get away with it if the State of New Jersey required ALL candidates running for public office to release their tax returns.
 
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