The Democratic National Committee is suing Russia over the 2016 presidential election and party chairman Tom Perez couldn't be more pleased.
What is real is that this DNC lawsuit-coming almost two years after Trump beat Hillary-officially makes the 2016 campaign the longest litigated presidential race in history.
In researching my book Tainted by Suspicion: The Secret Deals and Electoral Chaos of Disputed Presidential Elections, I found that litigation in past presidential contests didn't ever really stretch past March-which is when presidents used to be inaugurated.
Rew Jackson spent four years railing against the "Corrupt bargain" that put John Quincy Adams in the White House, after the House settled the election in 1824.
Still, the DNC is seeking financial damages and an admission of responsibility, alleging that the "Conspiracy constituted an act of previously unimaginable treachery: the campaign of the presidential nominee of a major party in league with a hostile foreign power to bolster its own chance to win the presidency." And more importantly, a major party is trying through the courts to delegitimize an election it lost rather than focus on winning in the coming years.
Frivolous lawsuits challenging election results have been tossed around in the past, but it's almost unheard of for a national party to take up the mantle.
Fred Lucas is the White House correspondent for the Daily Signal, and author of Tainted by Suspicion: The Secret Deals and Electoral Chaos of Disputed Presidential Elections.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-longest-litigated-presidential-election-in-history/
What is real is that this DNC lawsuit-coming almost two years after Trump beat Hillary-officially makes the 2016 campaign the longest litigated presidential race in history.
In researching my book Tainted by Suspicion: The Secret Deals and Electoral Chaos of Disputed Presidential Elections, I found that litigation in past presidential contests didn't ever really stretch past March-which is when presidents used to be inaugurated.
Rew Jackson spent four years railing against the "Corrupt bargain" that put John Quincy Adams in the White House, after the House settled the election in 1824.
Still, the DNC is seeking financial damages and an admission of responsibility, alleging that the "Conspiracy constituted an act of previously unimaginable treachery: the campaign of the presidential nominee of a major party in league with a hostile foreign power to bolster its own chance to win the presidency." And more importantly, a major party is trying through the courts to delegitimize an election it lost rather than focus on winning in the coming years.
Frivolous lawsuits challenging election results have been tossed around in the past, but it's almost unheard of for a national party to take up the mantle.
Fred Lucas is the White House correspondent for the Daily Signal, and author of Tainted by Suspicion: The Secret Deals and Electoral Chaos of Disputed Presidential Elections.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-longest-litigated-presidential-election-in-history/
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