California high court strikes down state law targeting Trump tax returns – By John Kruzel and Naomi Jagoda (The Hill) / Nov 21 2019
California’s highest state court on Thursday struck down a law that would have required President Trump to hand over his tax returns as a condition to appearing on the state’s ballot for the Republican primary.
In a unanimous ruling, the California Supreme Court held that key portions of the Presidential Tax Transparency and Accountability Act, signed in July, violated the state’s constitution.
The law also requires gubernatorial candidates to disclose their tax returns for ballot access, but the California justices did not address that portion of the law.
The ruling comes ahead of the Nov. 26 deadline by which candidates would have needed to disclose their tax returns in order to appear on the state’s March presidential primary ballot.
In its ruling, the California Supreme Court sided with the California Republican Party over California Secretary of State Alex Padilla (D).
The court argued that the law creates an additional requirement that is in conflict with the state constitution’s “specification of an inclusive open presidential primary ballot.”
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