We Never Promised Anyone We Would Be Fair

>>136378

They make their own rules – and break them. Essentially, they argued they can make any decision they want on a candidate – or interpret their own rules anyway they wanted – and there was nothing anybody could do about it.

Before this, DNC lawyers actually tried to argue that Sanders supporters knew going in that the system was rigged, so they had nothing to complain about. This time, they made the same argument:

“The Court would have to find that people who fervently supported Bernie Sanders and who purportedly didn’t know that this favoritism was going on would have not given to Mr. Sanders, to Senator Sanders, if they had known that there was this purported favoritism.”

cont.

>>136379

The DNC Charter MEANS Something. The lawyer representing Sanders supporters said that the DNC Charter – which governs how the Democrats will pick a presidential candidate – is an inherent and important part of democracy in America, not just some political rhetoric.

“People paid money in reliance on the understanding that the primary elections for the Democratic nominee—nominating process in 2016 were fair and impartial,” Jared Beck said.

“And that’s not just a bedrock assumption that we would assume just by virtue of the fact that we live in a democracy, and we assume that our elections are run in a fair and impartial manner. But that’s what the Democratic National Committee’s own charter says. It says it in black and white. And they can’t deny that.”

He added, “Not only is it in the charter, but it was stated over and over again in the media by the Democratic National Committee’s employees, including Congresswoman Wassermann Schultz, that they were, in fact, acting in compliance with the charter. And they said it again and again, and we’ve cited several instances of that in the case.”

cont.

>>136380

DNC Doubles Down. Defending their bias, the DNC’s lawyers even argued at one point that the words “impartial” and “evenhanded” – words used in the DNC charter – were words that a court couldn’t properly interpret.

Beck responded: “I’m shocked to hear that we can’t define what it means to be evenhanded and impartial. If that were the case, we couldn’t have courts. I mean, that’s what courts do every day, is decide disputes in an evenhanded and impartial manner.”

The judge said he would make a ruling sometime in the future. We will have to see. If this lawsuit moves forward, it would involve a discovery process that would likely expose Wasserman Schultz and Democratic operatives to their actions and deeds that show even more slimy behavior than we’re already aware of.

FIN

>>136379
Well, the DNC is a private entity, as is the GOP.
I don't know how far someone could carry the argument that trying to rig a debate against Sanders and for Hillary constituted false advertising

>>136382
>Well, the DNC is a private entity, as is the GOP.

Agreed, which is why the tax payers shouldn't have to foot the bill for "elections" run by private organizations.

The Reps and Dems are free to rent halls and election machines to hold their party primaries on their own dime.

Arguably that's the way a party should work, but they're the ones who lied about being impartial. Bernie didn't even get the nomination for his trouble, the least they could do is give the guy his reparations. He fought a good fight.

>>136381
Courts don't have to 'properly' interpret the law because what ever interpretation they have is proper.

People definitely forget/don't know that political parties are private organizations and can pretty much do whatever they fuck they want.

>>136410

And yet the tax payers have to pay for these wholly private party primaries

Entire article at;
https://ivn.us/2016/07/21/taxpayers-spent-half-billion-dollars-on-party-primaries-in-2016/
Marisa Gomez in Electoral Reform
Jul 21, 2016

Taxpayers Spent Half a BILLION Dollars on Party Primaries in 2016

Republican and Democratic parties are in the middle of conducting their national conventions, leaving behinda primary season full of voter confusion, lawsuits, voter purges, and controversial election rules. And as the media spends little time focusing on the fundamental question of whether the purpose of primary elections istoserve voters or political parties,millions of voters who were disenfranchisedby party primaries this year had no choice but to pay for the expensive cost to administer them.

When all partisan primary elections, including semi-closed and open primaries, are included in the estimate,the total cost for all private party primaries nationwide was estimated to be$427,300,168.79. And even this amount,the group believes, underestimates the complete financial impact of party primaries in the United States.

For instance, current cost estimationsdon’tfactor in less definablecosts like the number of hours expendedby salaried public employees, the cost of dealing with confused voters, and the administrative burden of providingdifferent ballots for each political party.

>>136378
>http://thefederalistpapers.org/
get this blogshit outta here

>>136381
>the DNC’s lawyers even argued at one point that the words “impartial” and “evenhanded” – words used in the DNC charter – were words that a court couldn’t properly interpret.


fuck them.

>>136416

Feel free to point out any lies or inaccuracies in the perfectly valid and on-topic news article about a current newsworthy event.

I hope drumpf uses the launch codes, provokes NK and China into a fully blown nuclear war, so that this whole country can burn down and cleanse the corrupting eating it from the inside out. This government disgusts me, it is "for the people and by the people" in the sense that it enslaves the people and makes them pay for it. The only people the government works for is those with so much money and influence that they don't really need the advantages of having government officials in their pocket. Really it doesn't matter, Democrat or Republican. Hopefully one day an armed militia of angry and disgusted Americans will storm Capitol hill, and line up every single so-called representative and give them their 2 cents.... deliver 2 cents worth of lead right through their cranium. Only then will we be truly "free". The forefathers gave us the right to bear arms for a reason, they knew that after awhile, the people need to rescue their ideology from the pit of corruption... now is the time to bear arms and rescue our government, by wiping it clean. Unfortunately Americans are complacent and will lean back in their chairs watching their orwellian picture boxes, getting angrier and angrier but doing nothing until their pent up outrage triggers a stroke or a heart attack, and that is the end of it. Sad

>>136729
That's exactly right. As a libertarian, the whole federal government should be able to be fit into a small office building. Regulations, services, and laws must also be slashed to combat overreach and unshackle private industry, and the government must be shrunk. Perhaps a government that only adjourns during wartime would be the way to go. A government that can't do anything is a good government.

>>136729
God I hope this never happens, then they'll be free to make this an official police state with crooked JUDGE DREDD justices and you have to pay your local lord and lady for the right to work, live, have the option to not go to prison, and medical via 3x cost services. Russia, Germany, Italy, and good old fashion hillbilly justice on a simultaneous global and local scale.

>The Bern-outs have to sue the DNC themselves because Bernie is too much of a cuck to do it himself.
Pathetic.

>>136439
Read the goddamn sticky you idiot.
>Blogs and editorial articles are not acceptable news sources
I'll say it again, get this blogshit outta here!

>>136729
>The forefathers gave us the right to bear arms for a reason, they knew that after awhile, the people need to rescue their ideology from the pit of corruption... now is the time to bear arms and rescue our government, by wiping it clean.
That seems rather unlikely these days not because people are complacent but because we spend such ungodly amounts of money on our military that it would have little chance of success.
>>136746
>As a libertarian, the whole federal government should be able to be fit into a small office building.
You do know the government is the entity that enforces people's claims over private property, right? I'm all in favor of a small government based on direct democracy but it would have to be based around the concept of personal property rather than private, the "anarcho-capitalism" that the US libertarians preach is self-contradictory, there's a reason the term "libertarian" refers to groups like syndicalists outside of the US.