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On Friday, a federal judge ruled that the Democratic National Committee essentially rigged the primary election in favor of Hillary Clinton.
In a class-action lawsuit filed against the DNC and former chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the allegation was that the group was violating their own charter by rigging the state primaries for Clinton against Bernie Sanders. (It’s worth noting that even Harry Reid admitted it was rigged with his comment last year: “I knew – everybody knew – that this was not a fair deal.”)
The ruling, by Judge William Zloch was scathing: “In evaluating Plaintiffs’ claims at this stage, the Court assumes their allegations are true—that the DNC and Wasserman Schultz held a palpable bias in favor Clinton and sought to propel her ahead of her Democratic opponent,” the judge wrote. Then he dismissed the lawsuit.
The judge ruled that the court’s authority to intervene was limited in this case. The Observer writes: “The Court must now decide whether Plaintiffs have suffered a concrete injury particularized to them, or one certainly impending, that is traceable to the DNC and its former chair’s conduct—the keys to entering federal court. The Court holds that they have not.” The court added that it did not consider this within its jurisdiction. “Federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction, possessing ‘only that power authorized by Constitution and statute.’”
Essentially, the order ruled that the primaries were rigged in Hillary’s favor, but there was very little the courts could do about it.
“The Court thus assumes that the DNC and Wasserman Schultz preferred Hillary Clinton as the Democratic candidate for president over Bernie Sanders or any other Democratic candidate. It assumes that they stockpiled information useful to the Clinton campaign. It assumes that they devoted their resources to assist Clinton in securing the party’s nomination and opposing other Democratic candidates. And it assumes that they engaged in these surreptitious acts while publically proclaiming they were completely neutral, fair, and impartial. This Order therefore concerns only technical matters of pleading and subject-matter jurisdiction.”
Court Issues Ruling on Bernie's Charge DNC Rigged Primaries
In a class-action lawsuit filed against the DNC and former chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the allegation was that the group was violating their own charter by rigging the state primaries for Clinton against Bernie Sanders. (It’s worth noting that even Harry Reid admitted it was rigged with his comment last year: “I knew – everybody knew – that this was not a fair deal.”)
The ruling, by Judge William Zloch was scathing: “In evaluating Plaintiffs’ claims at this stage, the Court assumes their allegations are true—that the DNC and Wasserman Schultz held a palpable bias in favor Clinton and sought to propel her ahead of her Democratic opponent,” the judge wrote. Then he dismissed the lawsuit.
The judge ruled that the court’s authority to intervene was limited in this case. The Observer writes: “The Court must now decide whether Plaintiffs have suffered a concrete injury particularized to them, or one certainly impending, that is traceable to the DNC and its former chair’s conduct—the keys to entering federal court. The Court holds that they have not.” The court added that it did not consider this within its jurisdiction. “Federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction, possessing ‘only that power authorized by Constitution and statute.’”
Essentially, the order ruled that the primaries were rigged in Hillary’s favor, but there was very little the courts could do about it.
“The Court thus assumes that the DNC and Wasserman Schultz preferred Hillary Clinton as the Democratic candidate for president over Bernie Sanders or any other Democratic candidate. It assumes that they stockpiled information useful to the Clinton campaign. It assumes that they devoted their resources to assist Clinton in securing the party’s nomination and opposing other Democratic candidates. And it assumes that they engaged in these surreptitious acts while publically proclaiming they were completely neutral, fair, and impartial. This Order therefore concerns only technical matters of pleading and subject-matter jurisdiction.”
Court Issues Ruling on Bernie's Charge DNC Rigged Primaries
