{"id":790115,"date":"2026-05-12T02:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/790115\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:44:16","slug":"council-drops-ethics-case-against-gop-lawmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/790115\/","title":{"rendered":"Council drops ethics case against GOP lawmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City Council is dropping its disciplinary case against Republican Councilwoman Vickie Paladino over social media posts, including one that called for the expulsion of Muslims from western countries.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The City Council dropped its discipline case against Councilwoman Vickie Paladino for posting on social media about the &#8220;expulsion&#8221; of Muslims from western nations<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The decision is part of a settlement of Paladino&#8217;s First Amendment suit<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Paladino also agreed to delete three other social media posts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The decision to drop the charge of disorderly behavior is part of a settlement of Paladino&#8217;s First Amendment lawsuit, claiming she was targeted for her conservative views.<\/p>\n<p>Paladino also agreed to delete three posts and remove the title of &#8220;councilwoman&#8221; from her personal social media account.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides released statements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am responsible for the content, I never intended to make Council Members or staff feel unwelcome or unsafe in their work environment,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>Councilwoman Sandra Ung, a Democrat who leads the Rules Committee, said in her statement: \u201cI believe the resolution strikes the right balance between protection of Council staff and the First Amendment liberties of Council Members.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City Council is dropping its disciplinary case against Republican Councilwoman Vickie Paladino over social media posts, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":790116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,13565,7448,174828,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-790115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-local-state-politics","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-dan-rivoli","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116559312784056323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}