House Republicans are exploring ways to prevent Zohran Mamdani from ever being sworn in as mayor even if he prevails in Tuesday’s election by using the Constitution’s “insurrection clause,” The Post has learned.
The New York Young Republican Club is pushing to prevent the NYC mayoral frontrunner from taking the oath of office Jan. 1 under an idea floated this summer.
It cites language in the post-Civil War 14th Amendment to the Constitution barring from office anyone who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” or who has “given aid or comfort to the enemies.” The group argues that Mamdani’s own statements calling to resist ICE could violate the prohibition.
It’s the same provision Colorado used to try to kick Trump off the ballot last year, only to get slapped down by the Supreme Court. The high court ruled that it was up to Congress to enforcement the amendment, giving majority Republicans a chance to test their authority.
And both parties are scared. That is even more revealing.
This is the part I don’t (figuratively) understand about US politics. Mamdani embodies what the US left has wanted all along but he’s being pictured as worse than MAGAt by Democrats.
Democrats are fighting him just as bad as Republicans and are resisting him more than they resist the traitors in office. It’s bonkers.
It’s the billionaires.
Yup. The US is what happens when you let billionaires run the whole country. Mamdani is a threat to that dynamic.
Democrats are centre right, Republicans are insane. Once you undertanad that, it all makes sense.
Democrats protect Republicans because the reds are their only hope to seem like a reasonable political party.
This is a good summary of the us parties this millenium.
That’s because you mistakenly believe that the Democrats are “the left”.
No, I don’t think I mistake those two.
It becomes clearer when you realize that, in terms of political power, the left is a tiny insergency within the Democratic party. The party establishment itself is pretty solidly to the right.