Because Speaker Julie Menin knows better, her unabashed abuse of power in orchestrating a unanimous City Council vote for a $10,000 bonus payment for NYC’s deeply deserving school paraprofessionals would make Donald Trump proud.

Her usurping the mayor’s exclusive authority under the state Taylor Law to negotiate contracts was a naked giveaway to the powerful teachers union and United Federation of Teachers President Mike Mulgrew and sets a dangerous precedent at City Hall.

The teachers’ aides are an important part of the system and deserve more money. But that’s not the point here. Mayor Mamdani, who as a candidate last year recklessly backed the illegal Mulgrew checks, now has taken the responsible position and immediately filed a lawsuit to void the law on Wednesday, when it took effect without his signature.

As we wrote last month, when the measure passed........

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