The New York Young Republican Club is calling on Congress to invoke the Constitution’s “insurrection clause” to disqualify Zohran Mamdani from potentially becoming the new mayor of New York City.

The group said in a memo released Monday that Mamdani’s words and actions make him eligible to be barred from serving in office under Section 3 of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which was ratified in the aftermath of the Civil War and was originally designed to prevent former Confederates from holding public office in the future.

The provision was dormant for decades, but it received attention last year in the context of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot as President Trump sought to return to office. A few states invoked the provision to prevent him from appearing on the ballot in the Republican primaries, but the Supreme Court struck down those moves,

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