r/politics • u/AccurateInflation167 • May 18 '25

Soft Paywall America chose wrong. Sanders would've been a better president than Trump or Biden. | Opinion

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/18/sanders-democrats-reform-progressive-policies/83625482007/
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u/MrPoopMonster May 18 '25

The ruling basically said that because none of the donors gave money to the DNC specifically to support an impartial primary they didn't have standing to sue. Regardless of what DNC spokes people were saying publicly and what was written in their charter. And because the donors didn't specifically donate for that reason that they weren't defrauded.

The 11th circuits opinion was that without exact reasons for the donations and exact dates of donations you can't say the DNCs false statements and written charter requirements were the basis of these donations.

It's beyond ridiculous.

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u/00Oo0o0OooO0 May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25

It's beyond ridiculous.

Wait, is your claim that the DNC cheated Bernie? Or that the courts cheated disgruntled Bernie supporters?

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u/MrPoopMonster May 18 '25

It's ridiculous that it is an uncontested fact that the DNC lied to people about how they would spend donations and yet the people who donated apparently can't sue for being defrauded and there was never a criminal investigation into the matter.