Mayor Zohran Mamdani has moved swiftly to reshape City Hall, issuing an executive order that revokes all directives signed by former Mayor Eric Adams after September 26, 2024 — the date of Adams’s indictment.
Mamdani framed the move as a defense of working-class New Yorkers, though he did not provide specific examples of policies affected.
Thank NY pizza for this. Now kill the new casino.
I hope the next president does this immediately
I hope they also uses the full force of the government to put trump in jail or the grave. It is required
Yep those founding fathers they always talked about would have thrown trump in jail, put him on trial and had him executed within the year after January 6th
I don’t love the idea of executives blanketly rescinding their predecessors’ actions. That said, since the fascists started it, I won’t complain too much about Mamdani using it.
Well that’s the thing about executive orders. If you don’t want it easily undone, then you go through the actual proper channels to meaningfully change the thing.
In theory I 100% agree. But right now our legislatures are typically in gridlock and executive orders are the only way things get done.
If legislative can’t do anything. It shouldn’t be done. Gridlock is no excuse to bypass democratic processes
You assume those processes were ever democratic to begin with. The truth is that they’ve been rigged against the common people since they were first written.
I’m all for following the rules, but we can’t ever put the rules before people’s lives and wellbeing. If the law is unjust, you have a duty to disobey it. This includes legislative gridlock engineered to stifle progress and thwart the will of the people.
The idea that rules are less important than lives is exactly a part of the process that causes things like the war on terror.
Unjust rules should be broken, but rules should not be broken just because lives are at stake.
Basic rights > rules > lives
You assume those processes were ever democratic to begin with
A whole hell of a lot more democratic than one mayor deciding things. I’m from Chicago, I’m well aware of issues with the process. But I think you’re overstating it to say it’s wholly undemocratic
If it was truly a democratic proces then we wouldn’t even be able to have this conversation, because Adams would have been removed from office as soon as he was found to be corrupt. (Which is a prime example of how the “rules” only apply to the poor - why should we follow them blindly when those in power don’t!?) But the system isn’t working and hasn’t been for decades (If indeed it ever did) and to cling to it now as though the government will save us is foolish.
I care about the rules, this whole conversation started because I said I didn’t like the idea of blanket rescinding of executive orders. It sets a bad precedent. But we can’t cling to “the Rules” as though they are a self-enforcing mandate from some deity.
There are no gods here to save us. Politicians will not save us. The system will not save us.
WE will save us.
We will use the system and the rules when we can and abandon it where we must. But no matter what, we must not put blind faith in anyone or anything, because power corrupts and those in power cannot truly represent our interests because they are not one of us. And that distrust must always also extend to the rules they have written and force us to follow at gunpoint, because they add exceptions for themselves and catch-22s for us.
Of course I don’t want one mayor deciding things. But I also sure as entropy don’t want him sitting on his hands because of some stupid rule like the filibuster or whatever when he has a mandate from the people to represent their interests.
I’m sure he’ll turn out just as spineless as any other politician, but let’s not handcuff him just yet. He might just prove us wrong.
And he only rescinded Adams’s orders after the date on which he was indicted. The executive orders from before that stand.
Exactly. Criminals shouldn’t be allowed to benefit a broken system.
Oh, symbolically it’s very powerful. He’s (rightfully) pointing out that Adams should have been removed from office, and that therefore his official acts since are null and void.
But you can run into problems when you blanket reverse orders. Perhaps some of them were normal, necessary, or benign - and you won’t know which is which until you read them. I would honestly rather Mamdani say he’s reversing all of Adams’s orders, but then actually sit down and read all of them and reissue/leave alone any that would cause problems if reversed.
I would imagine he, or members of his staff, did read them all before today, and have a good idea of the contents. I believe he explicitly said he was going to reissue certain ones.
I was trying to research a list of the 9 orders revoked but that is paywalled and the nyc.gov database appears to be missing those issued by Adams.
There’s a little controversy over one of the orders that adopted an unusual definition of antisemitism so I wanted to see what else was repealed.
It’s a strange instinct to think, somehow, this wasn’t the case. In general, not here specifically even. And he especially does not seem like someone who’d just ad hoc do something without knowing what he is doing.
I hope and assume if there are any policies the criminal pushed that were actually good, Mamdani will simply re-order them himself.
That seems to be the case.
Mamdani noted he will issue a new executive order to retain the Office to Combat Antisemitism, which Adams had established through his own directive. The office was created to coordinate city efforts against antisemitic incidents and promote community safety.
It feels good to see a politician who actually shows attention to detail and cares about the people they’re supposed to represent. That’s definitely not the norm.
I like this approach. It is adding legitimacy back to the government. At no point in the future will anyone question the legitimacy executive orders that Mamdani resubmits because of Adam’s past criminal indictments.
Begs the question: What actions led him UP to the bribery charge???
I would assume it included, well…bribery.
/j
Well then, he was just drawing attention to himself. Serves him right.
I think this is more about symbolism, but yeah I get ya.
This reminds me of the Indemnity and Oblivion Act.
After Charles I of England was overthrown and England was declared a republic, the House of Commons seized control of supreme legislative authority and enacted various laws to govern the country without monarchy. The republic collapsed after a decade, and Charles II was crowned king again. Parliament then enacted the Indemnity and Oblivion Act, which nullified all laws passed by the republican parliament, and it even pardoned almost everyone who was convicted of a crime during that time.
FUCKING MONARCHISTS! Aight just needed to say that, one of my ancestors was exiled to the new world after that whole situation.
Even though England was a republic in name, really it was “more of the same” with the office of Lord Protector as head of state for life with powers similar to the king and the power to appoint his successor.
Don’t care ancestoral spite holds true.
We have to use their tactics against them; it’s the only way.
Sometimes, yes. Depends on the tactic - obviously we shouldn’t be kidnapping people based on their skin color - but yeah, we can’t afford to be too cautious right now. The very notion of democracy sits on a knife’s edge.
Their tactics were just erased.
A political “Command Prompt,” just think if and when the Government of Putin is voted out of the White House. We’ll see, hopefully Mayor and Mamdani and his cabinet made the correct decision.
Won’t someone please think of all the corrupt bureaucrats who bought him off?!
What even is this statement? Care to explain your thought process?
Bureaucrats don’t buy politicians…
They can be bribed or corrupt, but the buyers are outside the government chain of command.
