According to the AP, when the Democratic Party rules committee meets this Saturday to try to resolve the Michigan-Florida delegate impasse, it is constrained by party rules that will not allow it to restore more than 50% of the states’ delegates. Only the Credentials Committee can restore 100% of the delegates. But that would postpone resolution of the issue till the first day of the convention in Denver, an outcome that only Hillary Clinton is praying for.
A Democratic Party rules committee has the authority to seat some delegates from Michigan and Florida but not fully restore the two states as Hillary Rodham Clinton wants, according to party lawyers.
Democratic National Committee rules require that the two states lose at least half of their convention delegates for holding elections too early, the party’s legal experts wrote in a 38-page memo.
The memo was sent late Tuesday to the 30 members of the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee, which plans to meet Saturday at a Washington hotel. The committee is considering ways to include the two important general election battlegrounds at the nominating convention in August, and the staff analysis says seating half the delegates is “as far as it legally can” go.
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The analysis also said there is an option to restore 100 percent of the delegates — by a recommendation of the Credentials Committee that meets later this summer. However, that would mean a final decision would not be made until the first day of the convention in Denver since Credentials Committee decisions have to be approved by the full convention as it convenes — risking a floor fight.