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.
Maybe yeah … The art is to be resolute without weapons, strategic, smart, large-scale and unpredictable. National strikes, and creating or using a solidarity strike funds during the strike for alternative sources of income for ur neighbors and poor people and supporting organizations that work on democracy, I found protectdemocracy.org, supporting that is one of many good steps in the right direction, better than my crazy idea at least igues lmao
It seems like every week or so I hear of new ways people are coming up with to be a massive pain in the ass for ICE, and that is great. Peaceful resistance definitely doesn’t have to be nice, and can be pretty effective. Here in Chicagoland ICE is pretty much locked out of private businesses, and everywhere they go they are being followed by mobs with whistles or cars honking horns. They have been pulling over “suspicious” vehicles (pure racial profiling) only to have other drivers jump out and tell the victims to shut the fuck up and not say a thing to further suspicion. Resistance is peaceful, but it’s real.
Please keep sharing these stories.
It’s so important that people realize they do have power and these Nazi fucks can be stopped.
Majority report and status coup have been doing great coverage of this stuff.