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Will Trump have to release his tax returns to run in N

TRENTON State lawmakers are moving forward with a much scrutinized bill that could force President Donald Trump to release his tax returns to get on the ballot in New Jersey should he run for re election in 2020.

The Democratic controlled state Senate voted 24 11 to pass a measure that would require any future presidential and vice presidential candidates to submit five years of their income tax returns to the state Division of Elections in order to run in the Garden State.

Sponsors say the bill (S3048/A4520) is a response to how Trump, a Republican former Atlantic City casino magnate, broke with decades of tradition and declined to make his tax returns public. There is no federal law requiring presidential candidates to release their returns, but every major party nominee since 1976 had done so.

"By failing to disclose his tax returns, Donald Trump has ignored a long tradition of transparency supported by presidents of this country for the last 40 years," said state Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (D Bergen), a co sponsor.

The state Assembly, also controlled by Democrats, is scheduled to vote on the measure Thursday.

If it's approved, Gov. Chris Christie would need to sign the legislation for it to become law. And that's unlikely, considering Christie is a Republican and a longtime Trump friend and ally.

Critics say Trump releasing his returns could reveal whether he and his business ties have any conflicts of interest especially with foreign entities, like Russia. Trump has denied having such connections.

"It leads you to question things," state Senate President fake hermes bag Stephen Sweeney (D Gloucester) told reporters after Monday's Hermes birkin bags fake vote. "He said he doesn't have any ties replica birkin handbags to imitiaton hermes bag Russia. But he says a lot of things."

Still, some legal experts say the New Jersey bill may not be constitutional. Ronald Chen, a professor at the Rutgers Newark law school, told NJ Advance Media in January that he's "extremely doubtful that a state could constitutionally add a substantive requirement to running for president."

Three Republicans voted for the bill Monday: Christopher "Kip" Bateman of Somerset County, Jennifer Beck of Monmouth, and Christopher Connors of Ocean.

One Democrat voted no: Jeff Van Drew of Cape May County.

All of those lawmakers are in competitive districts, and this is an election year in which all 120 seats in the Legislature are on the ballot.

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