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.
That’s great, you at best have an AR with a couple loaded mags, and maybe a sidearm. And let’s give you a plate carrier because everyone has one these days.
You open fire on a group of 4 ICE agents. You get one clean by virtue of surprise, and a second one wounded. Two agents return fire, it’s now two against one. You manage to retreat, luckily, and now there is a manhunt on. Every street in a 5 mile radius has checkpoints set up within an hour, every law enforcement officer in the state has dropped what they are doing and are coming to join the fun. You have one loaded mag left, are driving looking for a gap in the net, trying to reload a magazine, when a local patrol car spots you and calls it in.
The state has such an OVERWHELMING monopoly of violence, a literal army is ready at a moments notice to enforce that monopoly. Resistance to ICE and the looming fascist America involves first community organization. Food, child care, income support, bail and legal funds, rent support, all of that needs to be in place before large scale, deadly force action can be used against the state, because the moment we do, a war is on. And there will be no terms of surrender.
Yes, most of us can’t be Chris Dorner, and it didn’t work out well for him.
Good cause it’ll create a domino effect in the rest of the country, it should escalate, cause you should draw a frickin line at nazis… ???
And yet there you are, typing away, instead of coming here and helping. It’s easy to talk shit, not so much to do it. Particularly when it means giving up your own life in an ultimately meaningless gesture.