The lawyers who brought forward this class action lawsuit, Jared and Elizabeth Beck, argue that this bias towards Clinton was in violation of the DNC Charter that contains the DNC by-laws that govern how the party and the primaries should be run. Article 5, Section 4 of the DNC Charter (shown below) states,
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The class-action suit filed on behalf of DNC donors, Sanders donors, and registered Democrats across the board who wanted back the money they gave to the DNC against both the DNC and its former chairwoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.).
It was revealed by WikiLeaks emails from the DNC hack that under the guidance of the now scandal-ridden former chairperson of the DNC, Deborah Wasserman Schultz, the party leadership had shown high levels of favourability towards Hillary Clinton and that they quashed the campaign of Bernie Sanders to make sure she won the nomination.
The lawsuit names a wide cast of characters that Trump has accused for years of orchestrating a "deep state" conspiracy against him -- including former FBI Director James Comey and other FBI officials, the retired British spy Christopher Steele and his associates, and a handful of Clinton campaign advisers.
Legal experts quickly knocked former President Donald Trump 's lawsuit filed Thursday targeting former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and a number of others—calling it "absurd" and "garbage."
Earlier this year, WikiLeaks exposed that the Democrat primary was rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton. Leaked DNC emails revealed top DNC officials were supportive of Mrs. Clinton and made sure it was difficult, if not impossible for Senator Bernie Sanders to ever win his party’s nomination.
Durham's charges against Danchenko follow another charge of lying to the FBI filed against Michael Sussman, a prominent cybersecurity lawyer with connections to the Democratic National Committee.. Sussman has denied wrongdoing and has argued that the convoluted nature of the indictment makes it too hard to defend against the charges. ...
Part of the lawsuit claimed that the DNC illegally favored Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over Sanders and were in violation of the DNC charter as a result. The judge assumed that the allegations were true but dismissed the case on the grounds that the supporters who felt defrauded should redress their grievances ...
She was accused of not scheduling many debates between the candidates because of the damage that the debates did to Clinton in her campaign against Barack Obama; much like in 2016, she began as the party favourite and slowly lost ground to an insurgent candidate. During the 2008 nomination process, there were 26 debates, compared to only six debates in the 2016 nomination campaign. Schultz also enacted a rule that said candidates could not participate in unsanctioned debates and lifted a ban on donations from corporate lobbyists and PACs that allowed the DNC to run the Hillary Victory Fund, a fundraising committee organised in collaboration with the Clinton campaign, which Politico reported to be laundering money into the Clinton campaign.
That has allowed the Becks to appeal to the Supreme Court. Elizabeth Beck told Consortium News: “Appeals to the Supreme Court are not automatic. You do not get to appeal just because you lost in the Court of Federal Appeals. The Supreme Court has to accept your appeal.
The petition filed by Elizabeth and Jared Beck says that though the Eleventh Circuit upheld the district court’s dismissal, they “found the DNC donor plaintiffs (although not the Sanders donors) did satisfy the elements … for the fraud-type claims.”. That has allowed the Becks to appeal to the Supreme Court. Elizabeth Beck told Consortium News:
In a response brief, DNC representatives claimed that the DNC had no established fiduciary duty “to the Plaintiffs or the classes of donors and registered voters they seek to represent.”. Defense counsel also claimed that Sanders supporters knew the process was rigged. As the Becks argue:
Part of the lawsuit claimed that the DNC illegally favored Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over Sanders and were in violation of the DNC charter as a result. The judge assumed that the allegations were true but dismissed the case on the grounds that the supporters who felt defrauded should redress their grievances ...
She was accused of not scheduling many debates between the candidates because of the damage that the debates did to Clinton in her campaign against Barack Obama; much like in 2016, she began as the party favourite and slowly lost ground to an insurgent candidate. During the 2008 nomination process, there were 26 debates, compared to only six debates in the 2016 nomination campaign. Schultz also enacted a rule that said candidates could not participate in unsanctioned debates and lifted a ban on donations from corporate lobbyists and PACs that allowed the DNC to run the Hillary Victory Fund, a fundraising committee organised in collaboration with the Clinton campaign, which Politico reported to be laundering money into the Clinton campaign.