Do Biden’s Delegates Have a ‘Loophole’ at the Convention?

It’s been a season of “novelty” in Washinton over the past couple of years. We saw numerous novel legal theories hurled against Donald Trump in an effort to seize his property or lock him up. Hunter Biden’s legal team has similarly attempted novel strategies to keep him out of jail, despite copious amounts of smoking gun evidence in both his gun charges and tax evasion cases. But now congressional Democrats are floating a novel electoral theory. Some are claiming that there is a “loophole” in the DNC nomination process that would allow Joe Biden’s delegates to vote for another candidate at the convention if he doesn’t officially release them. They are finding this possibility in a portion of the DNC’s rules which states, “Delegates elected to the national convention pledged to a presidential candidate shall in all good conscience reflect the sentiments of those who elected them.” (NY Post)

Democratic National Convention delegates are openly discussing what would happen at the August convention if President Biden either refuses to step aside or drops out of the race — pointing to a “good-conscience loophole” that lets them vote for a new candidate of their choosing.

DNC delegate Elaine Kamarck briefed other delegates Friday morning in a Zoom call that the apparent “loophole” allows for such a rebellion by letting convention-goers bolt if they no longer have a “good conscience” about their pledged choice determined by primaries and caucuses.

Kamarck, who has been on the DNC’s Rules Committee for decades, informed the 50 delegates on the call that “there’s no such thing as Joe Biden releasing his delegates. And Joe Biden gets this.” […]

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