3 California Supreme Court justices signaled Wednesday that Democratic lawmakers probably violated the state Constitution — specifically, a 1972 amendment opening presidential primary elections to all "recognized" candidates — when they required President Trump and his competitors to release their tax returns in order to appear on next year's primary ballot. The law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in July , the first of its kind in the nation, would exclude candidates from the primary election for president or governor unless they disclosed five years of income tax returns. Trump is the first president in more than four decades to withhold his tax documents from the public, and sponsors of the legislation, SB27, said it would provide important information to the state's voters. A federal judge blocked enforcement of the law last month, saying it appeared to violate the constitutional rights of voters as well as candidates and conflicted with a less-demanding federal financial-disclosure law. Appeals of that ruling could take many months to resolve, but would become pointless if the California court struck the law down on state constitutional grounds — an outcome that appeared likely at Wednesday's hearing in Sacramento. When Deputy Attorney General Jay Russell, the state's… Read full this story
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