The Daily Populous Monday November 3rd, 2025 night edition
Authored by nypost.com and submitted by NemoLeeGreen

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.

3 House Republicans are looking at proposed legislation what would try to bar Zohran Mamdani (pictured) under the Constitution’s “insurrection clause’ Getty Images

“There is a real and legitimate push to see the insurrectionist Zohran Mamdani either a) removed from the ballot or b) removed from office if he is to win on Tuesday,” Stefano Forte, president of the New York Young Republicans, told The Post.

Republican lawmakers are keyed in on the idea and are considering rolling out legislation on it once the government shutdown ends, sources told The Post.

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.

Proponents would like to see a congressional vote on declaring Mamdani ineligible, although that would mean getting it through the narrow 219-213 Republican House majority and overcoming a Senate filibuster should leaders decide to put it on the floor.

It would also have to survive any court challenge to removing a popularly elected official. But it would create a political wedge that would force Democrats to vote either for or against a socialist who President Trump is eager to turn into a national foil for MAGA.

The effort would come after the election, and only after Speaker Mike Johnson brings lawmakers back from an extended recess during the government shutdown.

Former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon predicted on his “War Room Pandemic” podcast last week that Mamdani would “rebrand the Democratic party,” in a signal of how MAGA allies plan to respond if the frontrunner prevails on Tuesday.

3 Republicans want AG Pam Bondi to probe Mamdani’s path to citizenship AP

Meanwhile, House Republicans are doubling down on their effort to push the Justice Department to probe Mamdani’s path to citizenship.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) has goosed is own earlier campaign to prod the federal government to investigate statements the New York assemblyman made when he became a naturalized citizen in 2018. The lawmaker wrote Attorney General Pam Bondi Monday trying to spur action and urging her to “uphold the integrity of its citizenship process.”

His idea has snowballed since The Post broke a story about his plan Sunday, as he booked a slew of media appearances and vowed to continue.

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Ogles wrote the Justice Department Oct. 28, citing The Post’s reporting and re-upping his call to have Mamdani deported over his “refusal to disavow violent anti-American rhetoric.” Current law bars membership in a communist or totalitarian party for people becoming citizens.

He accuses Mamdani, 34, of engaging in a “broader pattern of conduct inconsistent with the oath of allegiance required of new citizens.” He asks AG Pam Bondi for any update on the scope of any inquiry and “the steps being taken to determine whether denaturalization proceedings are warranted.” His comments were even more fiery on X, where he accused Mamdani of coming to the US from Uganda “to turn America into an Islamic theocracy.”

3 Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) re-upped his request to the Justice Department and cited coverage in The Post. CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) accuses Mamdani of having lied on his citizenship form when he failed to disclose his membership in the Democratic Socialists of America and statements in support of the “Holy land five.”

“New York City falls to communism next week, and they will have nobody but themselves to blame,” Fine posted on X Thursday. Ogles’ initial letter to DOJ also references Mamdani’s comments about the group – a reference to Palestinian-Americans who led the shuttered Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development Muslim charity. The feds shut it down in 2001 for funneling funds to terror group Hamas.

Mamdani has claimed he is not a communist in comments to The Post. “No matter how many times these Republican Congress members or the president of this country calls me a communist, it doesn’t make it true,” he said last weekend. His campaign did not return calls for comment.

A Justice Department spokeswoman confirmed receipt of the letter, but said congressional correspondence was delayed “due to the Democrats’ shutdown.” “The Department does not comment on the status of ongoing or potential investigations,” said the spokeswoman.

Waste-Time-2440 on November 2nd, 2025 at 17:11 UTC »

Literally thwarting the will of the people, denying them the vote by simply refusing to go along with the outcome. "Democracy" to them means calling all the shots, all the time, everywhere.

ToNoMoCo on November 2nd, 2025 at 16:59 UTC »

It's the NY Young Republicans and they're self avowed Nazis doing Nazi shit.

flyinsdog on November 2nd, 2025 at 16:58 UTC »

Seriously, fuck these guys.