Via Ben Smith, the Clinton campaign has released a letter from campaign counsel Lyn Utrecht detailing -- and we mean detailing -- why the Rules and Bylaws Committee has the right to seat Florida and Michigan's full delegation. The way the rules are being interpreted now, and the way most DNCers are interpreting them, the most the RBC can do is seat half of the delegations or seat the full delegations but give each delegate only half of a vote.

Whatever the merits of Utrecht's argument, it is highly unlikely to sway the committee, which, along with the DNC, is looking for the least painful way to seat the delegations. The obvious compromise is to seat only half.