Mario Mannarino - Litigation Lawyer

12/08/2025

🇺🇸 NEW YORK — New York Governor Kathy Hochul said Thursday that New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani cannot arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after Mamdani’s repeated vows to do so if the Israeli leader visits.

Hochul’s statement came as she distanced herself from some of the Muslim extremist's anti-Israel policies ahead of the new mayor taking office on January 1.

Hochul is generally supportive of Israel, while Mamdani is a longtime anti-Israel activist who has alarmed many Jews with his antagonism toward the Jewish state. Hochul endorsed Mamdani’s mayoral campaign.

Asked at a Thursday press conference about Mamdani’s pledge to arrest Netanyahu, Hochul said she disagreed with the plan, according to Politico, and added, “The New York City mayor does not have the power to do that.”

Mamdani has cited an International Criminal Court war crimes arrest warrant as grounds for arresting Netanyahu, but the court does not have jurisdiction in the US, and US federal law makes it illegal for local government to cooperate with the court. A separate federal law prohibits imprisonment and obstruction of foreign officials, including heads of state.

Legal experts have also said Mamdani’s threat to arrest Netanyahu is baseless.

Netanyahu on Wednesday said he still planned to visit New York despite the threat. Netanyahu visits the city each fall for the United Nations General Assembly.

12/06/2025

12/01/2025

In 1994, Ukraine signed the Budapest Memorandum, agreeing to give up the nuclear weapons, and by 1996 it had transferred all remaining warheads to Russia.

In return Russia, along with the United States and the United Kingdom, pledged to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, to refrain from using force or coercion against it, and to consult if any threat arose. These were political assurances rather than legally binding guarantees, meaning they did not obligate military intervention.

Ukraine effectively surrendered the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal on the understanding that its borders and independence would be honored, an expectation later shattered by Russia’s actions…

11/28/2025

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11/07/2025

Republicans must denounce and sever all connections with Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson.

Nick Fuentes is a virulent racist and anti-Semite who admires Adolf Hi**er.

Tucker Carlson is an anti-Semite who argues that Winston Churchill, not Adolf Hi**er, was responsible for World War II. Carlson recently provided Fuentes a two hour platform to spew his hatred.

These views are disgraceful, immoral and ignorant. There is no place in the Republican Party or President Trump's MAGA movement for these abhorrent views or anyone who espouses or enables them.

Too many Democrats have been silent for too long and refuse to condemn the anti-Semitism which is infesting their party.

The America First movement of the 1930's became discredited for tolerating anti-Semites and N**i sympathizers within its ranks.

All Republicans must do what is right and purge all traces of racism and anti-Semitism.

God Bless America!