On the New York City Council, where Democrats outnumber Republicans 46 to 5, Vickie Paladino must defend herself against claims she violated the board’s ethics rules with a string of allegedly “Islamophobic” social media posts. The opposing lawyer on the case has defended al-Qaeda terrorists.
Gothamist New York City Councilmember Vickie Paladino filed a lawsuit Monday asking a state judge to block the City Council from taking any disciplinary action against her for Islamophobic posts she made on social media, arguing her remarks were protected speech and unrelated to her Council duties.
Paladino, 71, a Queens Republican, asked the state Supreme Court to prohibit the Council from conducting a trial or taking any disciplinary action based on charges issued last week by the Council’s ethics committee.
“The Council intends to set a dangerous precedent for every legislator: if we don’t like your speech, we are coming after you,” the lawsuit charges. “The Court cannot tolerate this naked despotism, which will have a chilling effect on every legislators’ advocacy, particularly for Republicans and Independents.”
This should be a national story. NYC Council Member Vickie Paladino in court tomorrow over “Islamophobia” charges – in a council where members defend Hamas & compare Trump to Hitler
They’re using her to upend the 1A. proving NYC is closer to a SHARIA COUNCIL than Am rule of law. pic.twitter.com/ajyw45FWyX— Jacqueline Toboroff 🇺🇸 (@jacquetnyc) April 13, 2026
The ethics committee last week charged Paladino with disorderly conduct and violating the Council’s anti-harassment and discrimination policy. The charges followed a series of social media posts by Paladino that Menin, other councilmembers and community leaders condemned as Islamophobic.
Pending further action by the committee, the full Council could vote to censure or fine Paladino, expel her from the Council or impose other sanctions, according to Council rules. Such measures would require a two-thirds vote of the Council.
The ethics committee last week charged Paladino with disorderly conduct and violating the Council’s anti-harassment and discrimination policy. The charges followed a series of social media posts by Paladino that Menin, other council members and community leaders condemned as “Islamophobic.”
More recently, Paladino criticized Mamdani for praying in City Hall with Musim sanitation workers before the recent blizzard. “This is part of Islamic conquest,” Paladino wrote in a Feb. 23 tweet.
The lawsuit was filed by attorney and former mayoral candidate Jim Walden. It alleges that the Council action violates Paladino’s First Amendment protections and that her social media comments do not involve Council business. “To claim ‘harassment’ based on Tweets that staff members voluntarily sought out on a third-party platform (X) transforms a workplace-harassment policy into a roving censorship code,” Walden wrote.
The lawsuit also argues that Democratic colleagues who made racist, homophobic or otherwise inflammatory statements — including during official proceedings — faced no formal ethics charges.
Council Speaker Julie Menin urged the ethics committee last month to act following a Feb. 17 tweet in which Paladino criticized Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s appointment of Faiza Ali, a Muslim woman and former Council staffer born and raised in Brooklyn, as the city’s chief immigration officer.
“New York is under foreign occupation. There’s really no other way to put it,” Paladino posted. “Does this administration have one single actual American in it?” Menin condemned the remarks in a social media post of her own, stating, “This Islamophobic rhetoric is deeply offensive.” She added, “I condemn it in the strongest terms.”
This is how Muslims treat and humiliate Christians in Syria and other Muslim countries.
Then they move to the West and complain about “Islamophobia.” https://t.co/4yQoefaxdk
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) April 12, 2026
According to Paladino, “the Council has chosen to violate my first amendment rights for the sake of so-called ‘Islamophobia’ and to put it simply, we are not going to allow them to get away with it.”
Dozens of other council members have used controversial and offensive speech on social media — and in chambers — but only when it concerns so-called ‘Islamophobia’ does the council take drastic legal action. This is the beginning of blasphemy laws, and it represents an existential threat to our constitutional rights.
Steven Crowder has the full story:
There is no such thing as “Islamophobia”. “Islamophobia” is a complete myth. The Muslims, also called the Islamists, have proved for many centuries, from jihad, wars, attacks, etc. that ” Islamophobia” is a.delusion,.a cheat, a lie, a falsehood.
No one muslim calls themselves “islamists” because the neologism islamist is also a lie.
If there are islamists why can’t there be nazists?
The historical term, in the Western world, was “mohammedans and mohammedanism”. Don’t use those on youtube or you’ll face a lifetime ban.
Really? Youtube sucks.
“Islamists” is a real word, extremely well accepted, frequently used on the internet, and has been around for many years. That is all that matters.
So this is Sharia law, because only in Muslim countries do you face punishment or expulsion for speaking against Islam.
New York has sharia law, but it just hasn’t officially been called that yet.
Screw this death cult ! We will mock the prophet ! We will burn the Koran We will speak out The less Islam the better
NYNY and its sister city Londonabad, ain’t they just the greatest financial capitall of the world.
Both members of the worldwide caliphate and the people voted for it.
But did they vote for it? Or are the elections being rigged/fixed just like they are at the state level in Californication? I think Newscum lost his recall election, but as Stalin reputedly said: “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
Trump undoubtedly won the 2020 POTUS election, there’s way too much evidence of demorat election and voter fraud to believe anything else.