Trump and GOP sue California over law requiring tax returns to run in state's primary
by John Myers, Los Angeles Times
Aug 06, 2019
2 minutes
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California's first-in-the-nation law requiring presidential primary candidates to release their tax returns or be kept off the ballot was challenged in federal court Tuesday by President Donald Trump, the man who inspired its passage and whose attorneys argued that state Democratic leaders had overstepped their constitutional authority.
The lawsuit, filed in Sacramento, came one week after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the legislation. Two other legal
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