DNC Lawsuit - Hearing on Motion to Dismiss
Update: Please check out Mark From Queen's excellent Sunday Diary on this topic that I missed.
Summary of the motion to dismiss heard on April 25th. Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report reported on the interview with Jared Beck the lead counsel for the plaintiffs after the hearing. The DNC's lawyer argued that even if the DNC selected the winner in smoke filled back rooms it would be entirely legal (edited from incorrect illegal - thanks!). That the DNC are not required to be neutral, fair or unbiased. That Sanders supporters should have known this when they made their donations. The next step is a written ruling from the judge on the motion. No indication of when to expect it.
Mike followed up with a 45 minute interview with Niko House who attended the hearing and was on the ground in North Carolina during the primaries discussing both the lawsuit, stories of sabotage of the Sanders campaign involving details of Aisha Dew and the implications for the subpoena and cross-examination of the lawsuit. Tim Black interviews Jared Beck who states clearly that they have evidence of widespread infiltration of Sanders campaign by Clinton supporters with the intent to sabotage it.
In the face of a complete corporate media blackout on this case we need to share this story and these interviews as far as and as wide as we can.
Comments
Thanks for posting this and all of the links.
If they can pick, why didn't they instead of leading everyone to believe there was a contest? I read that there are roughly 43 people who could run in the Dem primary in 2020. So let's cut the bull shit and quit wasting everyone's time and money. The DNC needs to announce who they are running and get it over.
This will never be covered by the main stream media. Jared could win, the DNC pay Bernie supporters 100 million, and the press would still ignore it. So you are absolutely right it is up to us to get the word out.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
You'll be able to get that name
as soon as little Napoleon at TOP tells his minions who they will be supporting in 2020.
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
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nice. (++)
Corporate media ignoring will not suppress it.
It will just force more people to turn to alternate news sources.
The money is secondary to discovery and getting people on the stand. Although with 3:1 penalty it's more like $400 million going back to people who donated to Sanders. A nice investment in those that were willing to invest in Sanders and could be a boost to any third party moving in to take over the Left.
Potentially more than $400 million
The damage award is potentially much greater than $400 million. In some discussions, I've seen the figure $2 billion thrown about.
The reason is that there are several classes in this class action lawsuit (presuming that the judge eventually certifies the classes). One class is comprised of all donors to Bernie's campaign. The other classes are all people who donated to the DNC and all members of the Democratic Party.
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
You are correct, there are additional classes beyond the
primary donations to Sanders. If these additional classes are certified for those that donated time, quit jobs to campaign for Sanders and more the financial penalties increase. $2 billion starts to be real money and I'm sure the Dems donors could come up with $400 million, it would be nice if they baulked at $2 billion and let them go bankrupt
Agreed.
Shining sunlight on the cesspit that is the DNC is far more important than the ultimate monetary award.
And a win on the Motion to Dismiss is all we need for that discovery to begin....
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
Potential discovery
I've been thinking about whom the plaintiffs' lawyers might subpoena for depositions and/or to testify at trial. That could potentially cover a lot of territory. Not only DWS, Brazile, Podesta, Huma Abedin, and Hillary herself, but also various people who were seen in the wikileaks emails as having cooperated with the DNC in rigging the primary. For example, prominent members of the mainstream news media. Wouldn't it be something to see people like Rachel Maddow and Wolf Blitzer having to answer questions under oath in a public courtroom?
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
Tom Perez saying it was rigged then recanting
on the stand, hand on the bible, "Now which one of those statements is the truth, Tom?"
Hillary crossed about conversations with DWS, Brazille. Eight years of stories to keep straight for a lot of not very bright people
If we get to discovery. Seth Rich and Shawn Lucas are both dead under less than straightforward circumstances. Do not doubt the level of House of Cards shit involved in this. Narcissists gonna Narcissitate.
@gendjinn I hope Mr. House is
I hope Mr. House is being provided with some kind of security.
Mary Bennett
One would hope such precautions are unneeded.
One would hope such tinfoil hat conspiracies remained risible. One would hope. But alas, I know from my own family's experience how the state will murder its own when they deem it required. British military intelligence tried to assassinate my great uncle in the early 80s after he decided not to work for them anymore in Zambia/Zimbabwe.
Remember Niko House's YouTube videos in March 2016?
This kind of citizen journalism takes courage and temerity.
"Exposing internal corruption in the Bernie Sanders campaign."
Aisha Dew, Robert Dempsy, Patsy Keever are all connected to Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Proof Clinton PAC Is Paying Bernie Staffer (which contains in its description box a link to C99 for a story by our very own Steven D!)
And, here's a recent, excellent, 46-minute interview on the Humanist Report with House:
This #DNCFraudLawsuit case deserves to go ahead. Could turn DC, our vaunted, Greatest Democracy in the World propaganda and the MSM, on its head, for its complicity in covering up what people suspect has been the truth all along. Just need a few brave Judges who are fed up too.
My piece on this, from Saturday:
Where Is the Support in the Left Media for the #DNCFraudLawsuit? Say It Ain't So - Both Thomas Frank and TYT Panel Shirk From Standing With DNC Collusion and Fraud Issues. Where Are Our Allies?
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THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
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Sorry I missed your piece from Sunday,
I did a search for DNC Lawsuit and it all seemed from 2016. My bad.
I'm especially interested...
in finding out more about the Dem's Clinton funded voter registration software (which Seth Rich was in charge of) and how they used it to de-register Bernie voters by conspiring with local officials in NY (see Nita Lowey) and elsewhere.
The blatant vote rigging is IMO the dirtiest of all the dirty deeds committed by DWS and her election racketeering cabal at the DNC.
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
Hey! That was ME!
That those Fucks disenrolled(purged)! Registered Dem to vote for the Bern and promptly got shitcanned from 'their party' in the general. No Ballot for You! Vote Nazis indeed.
peace
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Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
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IIRC, user “Damnit Janet” said that happened to her as well. n/t
please, Big Fella!
please. just this one time.
Small misprint in your diary
illegal s/b legal
the misprint
punctuation adjusted
The DNC's lawyer argues that even if the DNC selected the winner in smoke filled back rooms it would be entirely legal.
Our Essayist argues that if the DNC selected the winner in smoke filled back rooms or some other such subterfuge (such as the subterfuge they actually used) it would be entirely illegal. And this is indeed the case. The State Laws creating the Primary Election system were passed to prevent exactly what the DNC's lawyers argue they should be allowed to do anyway.
You'd think that questions which were considered settled prior to World War II would remain settled today, but.....
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
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Thanks, fixed ;)
Another lawsuit I would like to see
is that IF the DNC wins, then taxpayers should have standing to sue the DNC for the taxpayers having to pick up the costs for a process that is pre-determined by a private organization, the DNC. If the DNC has already determined whom they want to win the election (and I mean any election at any level), then why are the taxpayers financing a sham election process the outcome of which was rigged by the DNC which is a private organization?
BTW, I watched two of the three interviews, having missed the Tim Black interview of Jared Beck. For those who are not aware, Jared Beck was a Harvard law graduate and the editor of the law review. He is extremely sharp guy and Nico House heaps a lot of praise on him. Nico House was the canary in the coal mine when he spotted Aisha Dew as a Clinton embed in the Sanders campaign.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
My issue exactly
why are independents forced to fund elections they cannot vote in. These 2 loser parties should be required to fully fund their popularity contests.
There is no victory for the DNC.
They need to bury this completely. Any coverage of this no matter the outcome is very damaging for them.
I'm getting hit up by Clintonistas worried about the current constitutional crisis, when pointed to the fraud practised by the DNC during the primary their "concern" for "constitutional crises" evaporates.
Jeebus bless the internets!
lolol.
Taxpayer standing...
is typically a tough argument to win.
Although another angle on that issue might be to revoke the DNC's non-profit tax status.
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
Here's another interesting fact
Here's another interesting fact about this lawsuit.
The DNC and Debbie Wassermann Shultz are being represented in this case by the law firm that DNC uses for all of its business: the well-known Washington DC firm Perkins Coie.
In the wikileaks documents that show the DNC conniving to fix the primary, Perkins Coie lawyers appear to participate in the shenanigans for which the DNC is now being sued.
Seems like a conflict of interest on the part of Perkins Coie, at the very least. This case has the potential to cause a lot of (well-deserved) trouble for a lot of people. I guess we can see why the MSM is trying its best to ignore it.
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
Thanks for that - it is rather beautiful isn't it?