• givesomefucks@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 days ago

    lawsuit

    The DNC literally have argued in court to a judge that they can do this and the judge agreed…

    It wasn’t even a decade ago, you’re almost definitely old enough to have lived thru it. And it was pretty big news at the time…

    The DNC argued the only-in-politics defense that the Sanders donors knew that the committee was biased toward Clinton, and therefore, it was under no legal obligation to be neutral or fair to all candidates.

    https://lawandcrime.com/opinion/bernie-sanders-donors-lose-case-alleging-dnc-improperly-tipped-the-scales-in-favor-of-hillary-clinton/

    The DNC legitimately said Dem voters should know that the DNC is corrupt and that they won’t let a fair primary happen.

    You’re talking like this is a hypothetical still, the lawsuit has already happened.

    But like, even just a few months ago we saw it happen:

    “Moreover, political parties have the constitutional right to determine the procedure by which they select their nominees, as repeatedly confirmed by the Supreme Court,” Foley said, citing the Supreme Court cases Democratic Party of United States v. Wisconsin ex rel. La Follette and California Democratic Party v. Jones.

    “The authority of the national parties to choose their nominee in the event the nominee can’t run comes as a surprise to many in this day of wall-to-wall primaries,” Elaine Kamarck, author of “Primary Politics: Everything You Need to Know about How America Nominates Its Presidential Candidates,” wrote in September. “And yet, it is a reminder that the choice of a nominee is party business — not state law, not federal law, and not constitutional law."

    https://www.factcheck.org/2024/07/experts-delegates-free-to-pick-democratic-nominee/

    People need to start paying more attention