California Gov. Gavin Newsom informed a federal court on Tuesday that he will appeal its decision barring the enforcement of the state's law that requires presidential candidates to disclose income tax returns before their names can appear on the state's primary ballot.
The appeal, which will be filed with the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, comes after a federal judge blocked the law from going into effect last week, in a win for President Donald Trump. . . .
Last week, US District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. of the Eastern District of California wrote that "while this Court understands and empathizes with the motivations that prompted California" to pass the law, "the Act's provisions likely violate the Constitution and the laws of the United States." England noted that it is not the court's role "to decide whether a tax return disclosure requirement is good policy or makes political sense."