So you will know ahead of today's Rules Committee meeting: Harold Ickes's Call to Seat Florida & Michigan Is a Reversal for Him

From The Wall Street Journal:

Last year, Harold Ickes, a Democratic Party rules committee member and key adviser to Hillary Clinton, voted to strip Florida and Michigan of their convention votes for holding primaries too early in the season.

When the rules committee meets this weekend, Mr. Ickes -- still on the committee and still a Clinton adviser -- will argue the Florida and Michigan votes should be reinstated in a way that would give the New York senator a huge boost.

Mr. Ickes said he and other committee members voted last year to strip Florida and Michigan of their convention delegates because "we wanted to send a definitely unambiguous signal" to other states against jumping the primary queue.

To mollify the two states, Mr. Ickes wants the rules committee, which meets in Washington Saturday, to seat all of their delegates at this summer's convention.

Even Florida and Michigan haven't proposed anything so generous, and the party's lawyers are advising committee members that they have the authority to seat only half of the delegates. The Republican Party cut the states' votes in half for holding early primaries, although John McCain, the likely nominee, has said he would restore the delegates.