What Part of Unconstitutional Doesn’t the Press Understand?
Listen up, press corps!
When a Federal Court declares an election unconstitutional, it means the election results don’t count..
What that SHOULD mean to you is that you quit yammering about the Michigan delegates and THINK.
The challenge was not brought by a Democrat; it was brought by the AFL-CIO on behalf of the Green, Libertarian and Reform parties. It concerned issues of voter lists and which parties received them.
The judge ruled the primary law unconstitutional, the election results null, and specifically did not order a revote.
You still with me, press? What does that mean, you ask? It means there are no results from Michigan with which to seat delegates in any apportioned manner. Period.
Imagine the backlash politically as a result of unelected delegates being seated in an undemocratic and unconstitutional election by Democrats. Ugly. Really ugly.
So quit yakkin’ about the Michigan delegates. If they want to take a delegation appointed at a state convention and allocate those delegates half to each candidate, I’m sure that can be done. But there will be no apportionment based on an incomplete ballot and an unconstitutional election.
Got it? Good. So seriously, stick a fork in it because that dead horse is beaten and done.
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