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jberryhill

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4. Is that Constitutional?

Reply to SmartVoter22 (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2020, 07:14 AM

Mar 2020

The qualifications to be president are:

" No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."

Can a state impose additional requirements beyond those?

What other things can a state require?

For example, in addition to tax returns for some arbitrary number of years, can a state require a candidate to provide:

1. A birth certificate

2. Academic transcripts

3. Medical records

4. Biological samples for genetic and disease testing

All of those are things that voters might want to know about a candidate. Are some of them okay, and some not okay to require?

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California Forces Trump to release tax returns to get on Nov 2020 ballot [View all] SmartVoter22 Mar 2020 OP

K&R uponit7771 Mar 2020 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author Hiawatha Pete Mar 2020 #2

The Supreme court turned that over. Check the date of your link because I think it's old. Maraya1969 Mar 2020 #3

Well, isn't it great that we have wnylib Mar 2020 #5

+1 Baitball Blogger Mar 2020 #9

It was Federal Court in Sacramento, not the SCOTUS oldsoftie Mar 2020 #10

Oh. OK wnylib Mar 2020 #11

From the date of this original decision, apparently not. oldsoftie Mar 2020 #14

After posting, I thought that an appeal wnylib Mar 2020 #15

The appeal was dismissed as moot jberryhill Mar 2020 #34

No - It was not a federal court at all jberryhill Mar 2020 #29

They must have appealed then. The original decision was by a US District Court judge oldsoftie Mar 2020 #32

No.... jberryhill Mar 2020 #33

This message was self-deleted by its author Hiawatha Pete Mar 2020 #8

Of course they did. The Supremes are such tools of Trump Farmer-Rick Mar 2020 #16

The history of ballot access laws is littered with attempts at discrimination against minorities jberryhill Mar 2020 #18

I thought the same thing exboyfil Mar 2020 #20

My favorite is "How about if we require a psychological fitness test?" jberryhill Mar 2020 #22

And yet there are laws that require the IRS to turn over to Congress his tax returns Farmer-Rick Mar 2020 #21

That has nothing to do with whether a state can require it for ballot access jberryhill Mar 2020 #23

It has a lot to do with how the Supremes rule. Farmer-Rick Mar 2020 #27

The Supreme Court never had their hands on this case jberryhill Mar 2020 #28

And let me introduce you to one of the people you just smeared jberryhill Mar 2020 #31

Is that Constitutional? jberryhill Mar 2020 #4

Unless its an urban myth, hasnt trump sealed ALL academic records? ALL of them? oldsoftie Mar 2020 #12

That is bullshit jberryhill Mar 2020 #17

Yes, they're private. But YOU can release them. Trump threatened anyone who MAY leak them: oldsoftie Mar 2020 #24

As well he should jberryhill Mar 2020 #25

You are right. And I certainly appreciate your objectivity. Its usually lacking here. oldsoftie Mar 2020 #30

SC will rule it invalid beachbumbob Mar 2020 #6

California SC already did AncientGeezer Mar 2020 #35

link pls dweller Mar 2020 #7

It was an old link SmartVoter22 Mar 2020 #13

They will soon face major cuts from trump to try and hurt them for this duforsure Mar 2020 #19

New York was also set to require release of tax returns Danascot Mar 2020 #26