California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation that would boot Trump from the state’s primary ballots if he doesn’t make his tax returns public
California Gov. Gavin Newsom embraced a politically explosive and legally dubious attempt to pry loose President Donald Trump’s tax returns on Tuesday, signing legislation that would boot Trump from California primary ballots if he doesn’t make his filings public.
And Newsom's signature could push his already-contentious relationship with Trump into volatile new territory — potentially imperiling California's relationship with Washington. The logic underpinning Newsom's argument was consistent with the governor's repeated comments in past years that public transparency compels Trump to release his tax returns. He repeatedly suggested that Trump was "hiding" damaging information, writing that Trump's "finances are a house of cards."in 2017, warning then of constitutional hurdles and the risk of escalating a political conflict.
While the bill sailed through California’s Democratic-dominated Legislature with little friction, it spurred an angry response from marginalized California Republicans who accused their counterparts of ginning up conflict. California Republican Party Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson excoriated Newsom in a statement calling the law “clearly unconstitutional.”
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