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    George Skelton: California's election law requiring Trump's tax returns is just plain petty politics

    by George Skelton, Los Angeles Times Aug 16, 2019 3 minutes

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov. Jerry Brown was right. His successor Gavin Newsom isn't - at least about whether a state should be allowed to dictate qualifications for a presidential candidate.

    States should butt out and defer to the U.S. Constitution. It spells out simple criteria that have worked for 232 years: A president must be a natural-born citizen - meaning born a U.S. citizen - have lived in the country 14 years and be at least 35.

    California's Democrat-controlled state Legislature passed a spiteful "gotcha" bill last month that was

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