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[–] [Deleted] 0 points (+0|-0)

Can't we just eject California from the United States build a wall the new border?

[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+1|-0)

Sadly, no.
;-)

[–] [Deleted] 0 points (+0|-0)

I visited San Diego very briefly and liked it. That the state is so awful makes me a little sad.

[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+1|-0)

San Diego is a great little town. San Francisco used to be too. I've spent a lot of time in Marina del Rey as well.
California is not somewhere I'd live now.

[–] [Deleted] -1 points (+1|-2)

First, it may not be constitutional. Second, it sets a “slippery slope” precedent. Today we require tax returns, but what would be next?

Pretty goood idea to check candidates are above board and have paid taxes. The slippery slope argument is bogus.

Judicial watch don't elaborate on why "it may not be constitutional".

[–] doggone 2 points (+2|-0)

and have paid taxes.

Lot's of people in the US don't pay taxes. Should some lifelong welfare recipient be barred from election? Well, maybe, but that's not what they want to know. They want to know Trumps tax returns.

The tax returns in question are all approved and accepted by the Federal government. Whatever great reductions someone may have taken advantage of would be an indicator of the law and not the candidate.

The US Constitution sets requirements for presidential election. A state adding to those requirements could infringe upon the rights of the other states.

[–] [Deleted] 2 points (+2|-0)

The suit alleges that the law unconstitutionally adds a new qualification for candidates for president.

[–] [Deleted] 0 points (+0|-0)

Which bit of the constitution disallows that?

[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+2|-1)

Really?
Article II, Section 1:

"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."