Team Clinton Sues To Block Nevada Caucus Rules

Whatever happened to, All the votes must count?

Clinton-Obama battle moves to the courtroom
Rival unions backing Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton today take an arcane dispute over the timing of caucuses to the Las Vegas courts as the candidates battle for any edge in the close Democratic presidential race.

A federal judge is to hear arguments in a lawsuit aimed at closing several workplace caucuses in the Las Vegas casino district. The lawsuit represents a move by the Nevada teachers' union to blunt the political power of the mighty Culinary Workers union, a 60,000-member syndicate that has endorsed Obama.

Obama and Clinton both hope to triumph in Saturday's Nevada caucuses and break the deadlock after their respective wins in Iowa and New Hampshire and give one of them an edge as the Democrats head to South Carolina.

The Nevada State Education Association has not endorsed a candidate, but it has ties to the Clinton camp. The former president, Bill Clinton, has backed the legal action.

The teachers' union hopes to persuade a federal judge to prohibit the Nevada Democratic party from holding special caucuses at nine casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, the city's gambling centre, for shift workers who won't be able to make it home to vote in their district caucuses.

Most of the shift workers are members of the Culinary Workers union. The Democratic party drew up the caucus rules months ago, well before the Culinary Workers union endorsed Obama. The caucuses on the Strip were intended to increase participation among the workers who service the 24-hour operations at the casinos.

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Let's see how the witch tries to claim being ignorant of this.

Read it all at The Guardian

UPDATE: Clintonistas lose in court

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