California Demands Trump's Taxes

via my one-stop shop for the daily political recapitulation while vacationing, ElectoralVote.com:

The Presidential Tax Transparency and Accountability Act... passed both houses of the state legislature by large margins, and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) signed it into law [yesterday]. The bill requires that any candidate for president or governor who wants to appear on the state's primary ballot must submit the last five years' of tax returns at least 98 days ahead of the primary election. Donald Trump's lawyer, Jay Sekulow, has already announced plans to file suit. So has the California GOP... A fairly sizable majority of legal scholars think that the law should pass muster, since states have pretty wide latitude in establishing qualifications for candidates who want to appear on ballots. Further, there are exactly 118 days left until the deadline. Even if Team Trump gets a favorable outcome, they might not be able to work their way through the process (including appeals) in time. Assuming that the law stays on the books as of November 25 (the deadline for submitting the returns), then things could get interesting. Presumably, Trump will not bow to the demands of a blue state that he hates. The GOP could summarily award all of the state's delegates to him, but that would probably trigger lawsuits from Bill Weld and any other GOP challengers. [This seems a thin reed to me, but okay.--d] Alternatively, the Party could try to arrange a write-in campaign (which is legal in California primaries, even though it's not in the general)... [T]he GOP could just decide that Trump will be fine without California's delegates, and will leave them on the table for Weld, et al., to collect. Of course, that won't work so well if many other blue states follow California's lead. [Pay attention to Trump's own New York, I guess? Fingers crossed.--d] ... There are so many lawsuits related to Trump's taxes in which the President's position is none-too-strong, and in which early rulings have gone against him, that his taxes will likely be public before Californians ever head to the polls. [Such optimism! I don't share it, having lived through the last fifty years in this country.--d]

I've been waiting for a State to do this. Glad it's California first through the gate. Pretty sure Trump and the GOP in its present utter debasement will just brazen it out and fall in line as they have done for every Trump violation. Still, one never knows just which legal or legislative maneuver might bring the stupid vile racist rapist crook down, which exposure of his lies and crimes and outrages might finally bring enough people to their senses to care enough vote him out.