Legal Commentary

The DNC Rules Committee 5/31 Meeting Materials

By Jeralyn

Bump and Update: I just received permission to publish the materials. Here they are. By the way, TalkLeft will have a live-blogger credentialed at the meeting. S/he is BackFromOhio. So we will have two live-blogs going, BTD and I will live-blog together watching tv and BackFromOhio will live-blog from the meeting room.

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I have just received the 38 page DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee Meeting Materials on Florida and Michigan. The DNC asks that we not publish them so I will honor their request. Here's what their e-mail says about them:

• This document contains copies of the MI and FL challenges, a staff analysis of each challenge, and the overall timeline.

• The documents are intentionally neutral. They do not make specific recommendations. The analysis seeks to provide a rules framework for each argument and the issues raised within each challenge.

• The analysis maintains that the RBC did have proper authority and jurisdiction in imposing the 100% sanction. The RBC had wide latidude in that decsion.

• According to the rules, the automatic sanctions was 50%, the RBC has within its authority to impose a sanction up to 100%.

We will go review them and update here with any observations. Here's what Big Tent Democrat wrote this morning on their conclusions. Comments are closed on his post, but you can comment here. [More...] Big Tent Democrat writes in the comments below:

I can tell you it is an embarrassment. It is not even a worthy legal memo.

It is poorly written, misses tons of issues and simply is utterly unpersuasive. I wonder if the Clinton camp or any other nonintervnor gets to respond to it because I know I would love to offer a reply brief to this joke of a memo. I am shocked at how bad it is.

Update: Also check out StepBeyond's diary on Michigan and Florida posted today.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on May 28, 2008 (boomark / email).