{"id":8578,"date":"2025-11-05T00:35:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/?p=8578"},"modified":"2025-11-05T00:35:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:35:44","slug":"republicans-weigh-using-14th-amendment-to-ban-mamdani-from-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/05\/republicans-weigh-using-14th-amendment-to-ban-mamdani-from-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Weigh Using 14th Amendment to Ban Mamdani From Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans are exploring legal and constitutional strategies to block New York City mayoral front-runner\u00a0<strong>Zohran Mamdani<\/strong>\u00a0from taking office if he wins Tuesday\u2019s election, citing the Constitution\u2019s post\u2013Civil War \u201cinsurrection clause.\u201d The effort, first reported by the\u00a0<em>New York Post<\/em>, is being led by the\u00a0<strong>New York Young Republican Club<\/strong>, which argues that Mamdani\u2019s past statements urging people to \u201cresist ICE\u201d and his ties to left-wing groups could qualify as \u201cgiving aid or comfort to the enemies\u201d of the United States \u2014 language taken directly from\u00a0<strong>Section 3 of the 14th Amendment<\/strong>. That clause, enacted in 1868, bars from public office anyone who has \u201cengaged in insurrection or rebellion\u201d against the U.S. or provided assistance to its enemies.<\/p>\n<p>Several House Republicans are examining whether Congress could enforce the clause through new legislation or a formal resolution after the election. The move echoes attempts in Colorado to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the ballot, which the Supreme Court ultimately overturned, ruling that only Congress has the power to enforce Section 3. Some GOP lawmakers now see that decision as giving them authority to act, though any attempt to declare Mamdani ineligible would face major legal and procedural challenges, including opposition in the Democrat-controlled Senate and likely court battles.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Republicans are urging the\u00a0<strong>Justice Department<\/strong>\u00a0to investigate Mamdani\u2019s\u00a0<strong>2018 naturalization<\/strong>, claiming he may have violated his oath of allegiance. Rep.\u00a0<strong>Andy Ogles<\/strong>\u00a0(R-TN) sent a letter to Attorney General\u00a0<strong>Pam Bondi<\/strong>\u00a0alleging that Mamdani\u2019s remarks show \u201crefusal to disavow violent anti-American rhetoric.\u201d Rep.\u00a0<strong>Randy Fine<\/strong>\u00a0(R-FL) accused Mamdani of hiding affiliations with socialist groups and supporting individuals convicted of aiding Hamas. Mamdani, a\u00a0<strong>New York State Assembly member<\/strong>\u00a0from Queens, rejected the accusations, calling them politically motivated efforts to \u201cweaponize the law\u201d against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans are exploring legal and constitutional strategies to block New York City mayoral front-runner\u00a0Zohran Mamdani\u00a0from taking office if he wins Tuesday\u2019s election, citing the Constitution\u2019s post\u2013Civil War \u201cinsurrection clause.\u201d The effort, first reported by the\u00a0New York Post, is being led by the\u00a0New York Young Republican Club, which argues that Mamdani\u2019s past statements urging people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8580,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions\/8580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}