Mayor Zohran Mamdani has moved swiftly to reshape City Hall, issuing an executive order that revokes all directives signed by former Mayor Eric Adams after September 26, 2024 — the date of Adams’s indictment.
Mamdani framed the move as a defense of working-class New Yorkers, though he did not provide specific examples of policies affected.
I don’t love the idea of executives blanketly rescinding their predecessors’ actions. That said, since the fascists started it, I won’t complain too much about Mamdani using it.
Well that’s the thing about executive orders. If you don’t want it easily undone, then you go through the actual proper channels to meaningfully change the thing.
I think this is more about symbolism, but yeah I get ya.
And he only rescinded Adams’s orders after the date on which he was indicted. The executive orders from before that stand.
Exactly. Criminals shouldn’t be allowed to benefit a broken system.
Oh, symbolically it’s very powerful. He’s (rightfully) pointing out that Adams should have been removed from office, and that therefore his official acts since are null and void.
But you can run into problems when you blanket reverse orders. Perhaps some of them were normal, necessary, or benign - and you won’t know which is which until you read them. I would honestly rather Mamdani say he’s reversing all of Adams’s orders, but then actually sit down and read all of them and reissue/leave alone any that would cause problems if reversed.
I would imagine he, or members of his staff, did read them all before today, and have a good idea of the contents. I believe he explicitly said he was going to reissue certain ones.
It’s a strange instinct to think, somehow, this wasn’t the case. In general, not here specifically even. And he especially does not seem like someone who’d just ad hoc do something without knowing what he is doing.
I hope and assume if there are any policies the criminal pushed that were actually good, Mamdani will simply re-order them himself.
That seems to be the case.
It feels good to see a politician who actually shows attention to detail and cares about the people they’re supposed to represent. That’s definitely not the norm.
I like this approach. It is adding legitimacy back to the government. At no point in the future will anyone question the legitimacy executive orders that Mamdani resubmits because of Adam’s past criminal indictments.
Begs the question: What actions led him UP to the bribery charge???
I would assume it included, well…bribery.
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Well then, he was just drawing attention to himself. Serves him right.
This reminds me of the Indemnity and Oblivion Act.
After Charles I of England was overthrown and England was declared a republic, the House of Commons seized control of supreme legislative authority and enacted various laws to govern the country without monarchy. The republic collapsed after a decade, and Charles II was crowned king again. Parliament then enacted the Indemnity and Oblivion Act, which nullified all laws passed by the republican parliament, and it even pardoned almost everyone who was convicted of a crime during that time.
FUCKING MONARCHISTS! Aight just needed to say that, one of my ancestors was exiled to the new world after that whole situation.
Even though England was a republic in name, really it was “more of the same” with the office of Lord Protector as head of state for life with powers similar to the king and the power to appoint his successor.
Don’t care ancestoral spite holds true.
We have to use their tactics against them; it’s the only way.
Sometimes, yes. Depends on the tactic - obviously we shouldn’t be kidnapping people based on their skin color - but yeah, we can’t afford to be too cautious right now. The very notion of democracy sits on a knife’s edge.
Their tactics were just erased.