To registered Democrats as individuals? Probably not. To the Party, a duty of loyalty and care, a duty not to violate bylaws to elect a preferred nominee? Maybe. The question then is whether the plaintiffs have standing to sue in a “derivative” capacity to enforce the duty to the Party as a whole.

Tell that to the torn scraps of Paul Ryan’s shredded dignity.

I’m pretty sure the entire reason Paul Ryan refuses the idea of being nominated at the convention is because he is irrationally convinced Biden will somehow still be the Democratic nominee, and he doesn’t want to cry himself to sleep any more nights with the haunting echo of Biden’s endless laughter booming through…

Fiduciary duties are not limited to corporations. Guardians owe them to wards, partners to partnerships, trustees to beneficiaries, agents to principals, lawyers to clients, etc. The list goes on, and to some extent is limited only by the imagination, creativity and rhetorical skills of attorneys. I imagine the…

Well, one claim is that the DNC inadequately secured the plaintiffs’ personal and financial information, and there may well be merit to that. The Bernie Sanders Donor Class seemingly has the weakest argument. They are not owed a fiduciary duty if they are not also Democratic Party members, they did not donate directly…

Of course, a special election is still a worse bet than an appointment state with a Democratic governor, but Massachusetts has a pretty liberal voting population, broadly speaking.

I mean, sure, he’s a pro-Wall Street fiscal conservative, but he lived in a tent that time. Imagine what he could do as Vice President: deport himself just to see how it feels, dress up as a gun just to see how easy it is to buy himself... The possibilities are endless.

Apparently Massachusetts law requires a special election to replace a Senator, rather than allowing the governor to select the replacement (although the governor does select an interim replacement). And the Virginia governor is a Democrat. So none of the above options are disqualified using your criteria.

Why else do you think he’s been practicing functioning while under general anesthesia?

“He was probably talking out loud rather than thinking”

I’ve always felt that what our democracy needs is more statues, pointing at book pages, and close-talking laughter about horses.

“If I just massacred this tree without getting any sweat or dirt on this shirt, imagine what I can do to the welfare state.”

So, I assume this means the Presidency is now a low status job that doesn’t pay very well? What higher office can we have that men still get?

“I was the one that really broke the glass ceiling on behalf of women”

But it appears that the school did not merely enforce an existing no-hats policy, but rather singled this hat out because it offended other students. If they had said, “no hats, but you can wear a Trump shirt to school,” that would be a very different thing.

I won’t argue with your second claim, but under Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District the kid may actually have a pretty strong First Amendment case (assuming his dog didn’t render it moot, and he has plans for future political expression at school).

Not quite. As the Supreme Court in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (a case upholding the right of students to wear armbands protesting the Vietnam War in school) observed, “[i]t can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or…

This is a correct statement of the law. But it seems like the facts might support protection of the right to wear the hat at issue, under Tinker. Is there actually evidence that it would “materially disrupt classwork or involve substantial disorder or invasion of the rights of others”? A merely speculative belief that…

Well, the labor participation rate in the U.S. has been hovering around 62% for a while, so this means that Sanders donors are more likely than the average American citizen (16 years or older) to be in the workforce. Which makes sense, since they have money to donate. I don’t know if we can really draw many broad…

Indeed. I’ve long argued that the Feed Kennedy Foundation has been the primary driver of progress on LGBT rights in the last couple decades.