New York Democrats have chosen the far-left Zohran Mamdani as their candidate for Mayor. His extremist views are coming out, one after another. What I want to reflect on here is his lawlessness. Mamdani says that if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits New York, he will have him arrested:
The obvious question is, arrested for what? The NYPD has the power to arrest those who violate New York State law. What New York law has Netanyahu violated? Has he mugged someone, like so many who face no consequences in New York City? Has he jumped a turnstile? What New York law has he violated?
Obviously, none. Zohran Mamdani says that he will arrest those, like Netanyahu, who don’t align with his “values.” This is sheer lawlessness, the perspective of a tyrant. That man disagrees with me? Arrest him!
To be fair, Mamdani is not the only Democrat who sees things that way. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said something analogous in her notorious dissent in Trump v. CASA, Inc.. In Jackson’s view, any Democratic Party district court judge, any one out of hundreds, having been chosen by Democratic Party activists, has the right to effectively repeal legislation that has been enacted by Congress and is being implemented, per his constitutional duties, by a Republican president–just because that particular judge doesn’t agree with the policy. It doesn’t align with his “values.” (Of course, if the president happens to be a Democrat, “the law” is entirely different. Here Jackson no doubt would vote with her Democratic colleague Elena Kagan.)
This is not law, this is naked and unprincipled exercise of tyrannical political power. Extremists like Zohran Mamdani and Ketanji Brown Jackson must never be allowed into positions of authority in our republic.
