Democratic Nominee in 2020

Quote: JimRockford

That was my first thought as well, but I think it would hold up. States have wide berth to make their own ballot rules. Each state has it's own hurdles to restrict third party ballot access, but the constitution says nothing about parties let alone restrictions based on party affiliation.

Quote: AZDuffman

It won't hold up. The argument is easy. Where were Obama's college transcripts? Where were Clinton's medical records? Such a law opens up too big a can of worms. This isn't like saying you have to get a baseline percent last election or else so many sigs. This is an arbitrary requirement and one with no reasonable basis for being needed.

CA is trying the same thing. Just blue states making a circus.

Quote: JimRockford

I agree with all of that. All I'm saying is SCOTUS would not reverse it.

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Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar on Friday faced fresh accusations of belittling staffers, with a new report relaying a bizarre allegation that she'd berated a staff member for failing to bring her a fork with her salad.

The alleged confrontation, as reported by The New York Times, got weird.

According to the newspaper, the aide who neglected to get plastic utensils for Senator Klobuchar, D-Minn., committed the affront at an airport while traveling to South Carolina in 2008. Klobuchar not only chastised the aide, but reportedly proceeded to eat the salad using a comb from her bag -- then handed the comb to the aide and told him to clean it.

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Senator Amy Klobuchar was hungry, forkless and losing patience.

An aide, joining her on a trip to South Carolina in 2008, had procured a salad for his boss while hauling their bags through an airport terminal. But once onboard, he delivered the grim news: He had fumbled the plastic eating utensils before reaching the gate, and the crew did not have any forks on such a short flight.

What happened next was typical: Ms. Klobuchar berated her aide instantly for the slip-up. What happened after that was not: She pulled a comb from her bag and began eating the salad with it, according to four people familiar with the episode.

Then she handed the comb to her staff member with a directive: Clean it.

Quote: fleaswatter

Amy Klobuchar reportedly ordered staffer to clean comb after she used it to eat salad

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/amy-klobuchar-reportedly-ordered-staffer-to-clean-comb-after-using-it-to-eat-salad

for those lefties afraid of Fox News:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/us/politics/amy-klobuchar-staff.html

Quote: fleaswatter

for those lefties afraid of Fox News:

Quote: ams288

NYT is the one who broke the story, so you could have just cut out the middle man and skipped the Faux News article.

Quote: AZDuffman

It would probably be thrown out before SCOTUS. I really cannot see SCOTUS allowing it to stand if it gets there. Clear violation of state/fed powers.

Quote: JimRockford

The constitution allows states to select electors to the electoral college however they want. They don't even have to use popular vote.
https://newrepublic.com/article/147310/can-states-ban-trump-ballot-doesnt-release-tax-returns

Quote: AZDuffman

True. But they can’t add a requirement to run outside the constitution. The whole thing is just TDS on steroids.