One of the final, unanswered questions left lingering from the 2016 presidential election came to a close today. Thanks to an email hack, Democratic National Committee Chair and South Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was outed as being in favor of Hillary Clinton over her rival, Bernie Sanders, during the primary. The DNC bylaws say the chair must remain neutral during an election — and so a pair of Miami lawyers, Jared and Elizabeth Beck, sued the DNC and Wasserman Schultz in federal court, claiming on behalf of more than 100 people that the congresswoman had “rigged” the primary for Clinton.
Today, federal Judge William Zloch dismissed the suit, stating in a judicial order that — even assuming the allegations are true — it’s impossible to test any “fraud” claims against the DNC in federal court. Zloch wrote that the Becks and their plaintiffs claimed the DNC leak proved Wasserman Schultz’s conduct hurt DNC donors, especially those who donated to Sanders, and possibly exposed DNC donors to identity theft by getting hacked.
“The Court must now decide whether Plaintiffs have suffered a concrete injury particularized to them, or one certainly impending, that is traceable to the DNC and its former chair’s conduct——the keys to entering federal court,” Zloch wrote. “The Court holds that they have not, which means the truth of their claims cannot be tested in this Court.”
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