The Democratic National Committee and former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz are currently facing a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of Bernie Sanders supporters in federal court for rigging the Democratic primaries in favor of Hillary Clinton. On May 12, CBS reported another class action lawsuit was filed against the DNC for stiffing dozens of field organizers all over the country for …
UPDATE: 5:49 pm. Pierce County Auditor Julie Anderson tells KUOW that she has reached an agreement with the state Democratic Party because of the threat of the lawsuit. Anderson says her office will acquiesce to the party’s demands and is currently in the process of working out the details.
Fraud allegations won’t stop the Democratic Party primaries from rolling on in the Bronx — at least for now. A group of activists who sued the Bronx Democratic Party — claiming they were used as straw candidates for political posts — have not shown they will suffer enough “irreparable harm” to justify halting next week’s elections, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. But Judge Kimba Wood said in …
A federal judge has ordered Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to answer written questions posed by a conservative watchdog group about her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. That means she will not have to sit in a lengthy deposition and answer questions from lawyers during the campaign. As NPR’s Carrie Johnson reports for our Newscast unit, “U.S. …
The man who challenged Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and lost in the Democratic primary this year has filed a federal lawsuit against Madigan, accusing him of fraud and defamation. “Madigan is not going to get away with this,” Jason Gonzales said. He got about 27 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary this past March, versus 65 percent for Madigan.
Throughout the Democratic primary, DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been hit with many casual accusations of putting her thumb on the scale for Hillary Clinton. Now she’s been served with a class action lawsuit, making the accusations official. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday by Miami-based law firm Beck & Lee on behalf of a group of people who donated money to the Bernie Sanders campaign, …
With national attention focused on the role of superdelegates in picking candidates, a federal lawsuit filed in Trenton this month sheds light on how voting is conducted at closed local party conventions and how it can escalate political infighting. The lawsuit alleges that several superdelegates at a Democratic mini-convention in Berkeley, Ocean County, voted more than once, which led to …