California governor signs bill requiring Trump release his tax returns to appear on ballot

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Tuesday signed a bill requiring President Trump to release his tax returns before he can appear on the state's 2020 primary ballot.

Under S.B. 27, called the "Presidential Tax Transparency and Accountability Act," any candidate running for president or governor of California will be required to file copies of the last five years of their tax returns to the Secretary of State.

"As one of the largest economies in the world and home to one in nine Americans eligible to vote, California has a special responsibility to require this information of presidential and gubernatorial candidates," Newsom said in a statement.

"These are extraordinary times and states have a legal and moral duty to do everything in their power to ensure leaders seeking the highest offices meet minimal standards, and to restore public confidence. The disclosure required by this bill will shed light on conflicts of interest, self-dealing, or influence from domestic and foreign business interest."

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/455346-california-governor-signs-bill-requiring-trump-release-his-tax-returns

wtf, is this even constitutional? need a counter point to this….

>>7260977

August recess… good times!

#CreepyDershowitz: Trump defender Alan Dershowitz pilloried for wanting age of consent lowered to 16

Legal scholar, author, and regular Fox News contributor Alan Dershowitz jumped to his own defense late on Monday after an op-ed he penned in 1997 calling for a lowered age of sexual consent resurfaced on Twitter. #CreepyDershowitz began trending on the website shortly thereafter, while many users did not heed Dershowitz's call to consider the "constitutional conundrum" of the age of consent.

The piece, titled "Statutory Rape Is an Outdated Concept," which was published over 20 years ago in the Los Angeles Times, detailed Dershowitz's views on the constitutionality of statutory rape allegations when contrasted with the demand for legal abortions for 16-year-olds.

Responding to a tweet with a screen capture of Dershowitz's 1997 article, the lawyer and professor emeritus of Harvard Law School said, "I stand by the constitutional (not moral) argument I offered in my controversial oped: if a 16 year old has the constitutional right to have an abortion without state or parental interference, how could she not have the constitutional right to engage in consensual sex?"

In a detailed, alleged account of Dershowitz's legal career, personal life, and controversies published by the New Yorker on Monday, passages included details about a potentially abusive relationship with his first wife, Sue Barlach, to whom he was married for 14 years and had two sons. Barlach was said to have been in such poor health due to her relationship with Dershowitz that a judge in their 1976 divorce proceedings suggested that she seek medical and psychiatric care.

A bitter custody battle over their two children ensued, with Dershowitz asserting that Barlach was not stable enough to care for their sons. She jumped to her death from the Brooklyn Bridge on New Year's Eve 1983.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/creepydershowitz-trump-defender-alan-dershowitz-pilloried-for-wanting-age-of-consent-lowered-to-16

More propaganda against Dershowitz or is it more evidence that the guy is a creepo?

>>7261101

Possible E.O. to help with combat voter fraud coming?

Baltimore police organization tears apart commissioner's proposed plan to overhaul department

The Baltimore police commissioner’s newly-unveiled plan to reduce crime and make the department more efficient is bound to fail, a group representing local cops warned Tuesday, arguing there “are not enough officers to even respond to the number of calls to 911.”

The comments from Sgt. Mike Mancuso of the Fraternal Order of Police’s Baltimore City Lodge #3 come weeks after Commissioner Michael Harrison announced his vision for a five-year overhaul of the city’s police department.

The 25-page plan sets “a new performance goal of a 10 minute response time for responding to emergency calls for service” and asks officers on patrol to spend a third of every hour on “community engagement activity” and other “proactive efforts” that Harrison believes can reduce crime.

“We will continuously evaluate this metric over the next year to ensure that it is in line with national best practices and remains an attainable goal for Baltimore given its density, geography, and our personnel staffing,” the plan reads. It also says the department will seek feedback from communities “to create micro-community policing plans that are tailored to their needs,” among other requests.

But Mancuso said the plan, in its current form, is “untenable” as it ignores the city's shortage of police officers.

“The current deployment of Patrol Officers will not be able to, under any circumstances, implement the new crime plan as intended,” Mancuso said in the statement, noting that the department is “500 Police Officers short of the number required for effectiveness."

He added: “As it stands now, there are not enough Officers to even respond to the number of calls to 911, not to mention the addition of micro-zones, community engagement, and proactive policing."

Harrison, when he announced the plan in mid-June, did not reveal what the department’s average response time is, other than claiming it has been “extremely fast”, the Baltimore Sun reported. The department had about 2,500 officers as of a 2017 tally.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/baltimore-police-overhaul-plan-scrutiny

Interesting… Can POTUS get the Baltimore Police Commissioner some additional back up?