When Political Theater Collides with Constitutional Reality

You know the headlines. You’ve read the papers. You know about the fiery rhetoric echoing through the concrete canyons of New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani looks across the Atlantic toward The Hague and speaks of a different kind of justice. A justice he believes Benjamin Netanyahu should face.

He looks at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and sees a man who belongs behind bars. He wants the world to know it. And so, he commands his city’s Law Department to look into the books—to search every nook and cranny of the law to find the legal authority to clap the handcuffs on a visiting foreign head of government. He says........

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