The lawsuit brought about by Bernie Sanders supporters against the
Democratic National Committee and its former chairperson Debbie
Wasserman-Schultz has been dismissed after a court conceded that the DNC
and Wasserman-Schultz rigged the primaries—but were well within their
rights to do so—seriously.
After first assuming all the plaintiff’s allegations were true, for the purposes of weighing their claims, Judge William Zloch
dismissed the lawsuit on several grounds. The plaintiffs alleged fraud on the part of the DNC in three different ways:
1. The DNC did not remain unbiased as evidenced through the DNC emails Wikileaks published.
2. Donors to the DNC were defrauded because they donated to Bernie
Sanders as a Democrat candidate and the fix was in for Hillary Clinton.
3. The potential for identity theft was demonstrated when the DNC
failed to keep its database of donors and their personal information
confidential.
As Michael Sainato writes in the
Observer, Zloch, dismissed
the lawsuit after several months of litigation during
which DNC attorneys argued that the DNC would be well within their
rights to rig primaries and select their own candidate.
“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 court order dismissing the lawsuit stated.
Zloch concluded the plaintiffs failed to prove they were materially
affected by the alleged bias with which the DNC engaged. He wrote:
“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 overwhelming opinion of those who have actually read WikiLeaks’
leaked DNC email database appears to be that the DNC, Wasserman-Schultz,
and the mainstream media all colluded to ensure Clinton would earn the
DNC nomination. This was evident on numerous occasions,
many of which were caught on live video and openly admitted.
As The Free Thought Project has extensively
reported,
influential donors to the DNC are suing their political party for fraud
in the 2016 presidential election where they say their candidate,
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, was discriminated against. High-ranking
members of the DNC, by way of Wikileaks’ DNC email publications, were
caught favoring Hillary Clinton over Sanders and actively working to
subvert his chances at winning the party’s nomination.
Judge Zloch dismissed the lawsuit on technicalities (several of the
plaintiffs lived outside of the court’s jurisdiction) and precedents
(donors to nonprofits have no legal recourse as to what the organization
does with the donations).
Zloch never really addressed the claims of the plaintiffs, only whether or not they had a legal claim for damages.
Zloch admonished the plaintiffs his court was not the place to air
their grievances. Instead, they should have done so at the ballot box,
inside the DNC, and to work inside the system—a system they clearly
believe to be rife with corruption. Zloch wrote:
“This Order, therefore, concerns only technical matters
of pleading and subject-matter jurisdiction. To the extent Plaintiffs
wish to air their general grievances with the DNC or its candidate
selection process, their redress is through the ballot box, the DNC’s
internal workings, or their right of free speech—not through the
judiciary.”
Zloch dismissed the case against the DNC and Wasserman-Schultz by declaring,
“the Court finds that the named Plaintiffs have not presented a case that is cognizable in federal court.”
One of the plaintiffs in the case,
Jared Beck, went off! Here’s what he had to say in response to the dismissal and it’s epic! His rant starts at the 9-minute mark.
