Surely it will end up in the courts.The Democratic-led Illinois Senate voted Thursday to compel President Trump to release five years’ worth of his personal income tax returns or be barred from appearing on the state’s presidential ballot next year.
The state is joining a movement of other Democratic states that aims to force the president to open up his personal finances by releasing his tax returns, something he stubbornly has refused to do and reiterated again this week.
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The move in Illinois Thursday drew complaints from Republicans, who insisted the tax demand in order to qualify for the state ballot was unconstitutional and selectively avoided other officeholders, including the state’s newly installed billionaire governor, Democrat JB Pritzker.
“This is quite frankly, with all due respect to the sponsor, an embarrassing waste of the Senate’s time,” said state Sen. Dale Righter, R-Mattoon, whose home county handed Trump 60 percent of the vote in 2016.
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Similar legislation is in play in 17 other statehouses, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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