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NYC Dems drop disciplinary action against Republican council member over ‘Islamophobia’ tweets

Nypost · · 455 words · By Carl Campanile
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8 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“City Council Democrats agreed to drop a planned disciplinary action against a Republican politician over X statements calling for the “expulsion of Muslims,””
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Multiple sources (NY Post, NY1) report that the City Council moved to discipline Paladino for posts calling for the 'expulsion of Muslims' and that Democrats agreed to drop the action.
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web search NEUTRAL — Vickie Albrizio Paladino is an American politician from the state of New York. Paladino is a member of the New York City Council for the 19th district, a northeast Queens district that includes Colleg…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickie_Paladino
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web search NEUTRAL — City Councilmember Vickie Paladino is facing disciplinary proceedings over recent social media posts that included calls for the “expulsion of Muslims from western nations,” NY1 has learned.
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2026/03/04/queens-coun…
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web search NEUTRAL — Screenshot of a tweet by Councilwoman Vickie Paladino calling for the expulsion of Muslims from Western nations, citing a "global jihad" and an embedded tweet about a "terror attack Sydney."
https://nypost.com/2026/03/08/us-news/nyc-pol-vickie-paladin…
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“The Democratic-dominated City Council said they’d drop their pursuit of Queens Councilwoman Vickie Paladino in exchange for her dropping a lawsuit over the matter and removing the title “council member” from her X account after already deleting the controversial tweets.”
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While the general fact that the disciplinary action was dropped is corroborated, the specific terms of the settlement (dropping the lawsuit and removing 'council member' from her X account) are only detailed in the primary reporting and not explicitly repeated in the other provided search snippets.
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web search NEUTRAL — City Council Democrats agreed to drop a planned disciplinary action against a Queens Councilwoman Vickie Paladino over X statements calling for the "expulsion of Muslims," The Post has learned.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/11/us-news/nyc-dems-drop-discipli…
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web search NEUTRAL — The New York City Council on Monday formally moved to dismiss Council Member Vickie Paladino's lawsuit against the legislative body, saying her claims are "meritless" - but in doing so, city lawyers c…
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/03/new-york-cit…
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web search NEUTRAL — Paladino responded by suing the Council, claiming the ethics investigation violates her constitutional right to free speech. City lawyers fired back, asking a judge to toss Paladino's lawsuit ...
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2026/04/15/judge-w…
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“Paladino, 71, filed a lawsuit against the council in March, claiming Democrats infringed on her First Amendment rights when the council’s Ethics Committee filed a complaint against her”
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Multiple sources confirm Paladino is 71 and filed a lawsuit in March alleging that the Ethics Committee's complaint violated her First Amendment rights.
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web search NEUTRAL — City Council members are split over Paladino's rhetoric. "I think it's awful. I mean, Councilmember Paladino is entitled to the same First Amendment protections that every American is," Staten Island …
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/vickie-paladino-islamop…
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web search NEUTRAL — Paladino, aged 71, has described the recent complaint by the council’s Ethics Committee as “naked despotism” that violates her First Amendment rights to free speech, according to the lawsuit set to be…
https://newsfinale.com/us/nyc-council-member-vickie-paladino…
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web search NEUTRAL — Councilmember Vickie Paladino has doubled down on her anti-LGBTQ rhetoric after drawing widespread outrage on social media in June.
https://gaycitynews.com/what-happened-to-councils-investigat…
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“both sides ceased hostilities and made peace, according to the settlement reached in Manhattan state Supreme Court before Justice Sabrina Kraus”
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Evidence confirms the legal proceedings took place in Manhattan Supreme Court and specifically mentions Judge Sabrina Kraus's involvement in the case.
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web search NEUTRAL — Vickie Albrizio Paladino is an American politician from the state of New York. Paladino is a member of the New York City Council for the 19th district, a northeast Queens district that includes Colleg…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickie_Paladino
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web search NEUTRAL — Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Sabrina Kraus denied Paladino’s initial request for a temporary restraining order, which would have barred the ethics committee from proceeding with the disciplinary proc…
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/04/paladino-pre…
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web search NEUTRAL — Paladino has sought to highlight a broader inconsistency in the Council’s approach. She argues that statements made by members of the Democratic majority—statements that she characterizes as equally i…
https://tjvnews.com/local/new-york/judge-defers-ruling-in-vi…
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“Following last year’s antisemitic attack at Bondi Beach in Australia that killed 15 and wounded dozens of others, Paladino said posted a series of X posts aimed at Muslims”
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Multiple sources link Paladino's posts targeting Muslims to the aftermath of the Bondi Beach attack in Australia.
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web search NEUTRAL — Vickie Albrizio Paladino is an American politician from the state of New York. Paladino is a member of the New York City Council for the 19th district, a northeast Queens district that includes Colleg…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickie_Paladino
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web search NEUTRAL — NY Post Queens Republican Councilwoman Vickie Paladino is facing a firestorm from Democrats over social media posts she made calling for the “expulsion of Muslims” in the wake of the Bondi Beach terro…
https://barenakedislam.com/2025/12/16/new-york-city-republic…
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web search NEUTRAL — A memorial for the Bondi Beach shooting victims. MAGA world is calling for a mass deportation of Muslims, following a mass shooting in Australia—ignoring the reality that it was a member of the local …
https://newrepublic.com/post/204431/republican-lawmakers-cal…
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““We need to take very seriously the need to begin the expulsion of Muslims from western nations, or at the very least the severe sanction of them within western borders.””
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The exact quote is reproduced across multiple independent sources (NY Post, NY1) as the content of her X post.
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web search NEUTRAL — Vickie Albrizio Paladino is an American politician from the state of New York.In December 2025, Paladino posted on X calling for the expulsion of all Muslims from the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickie_Paladino
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web search NEUTRAL — “We need to take very seriously the need to begin the expulsion of Muslims from western nations, or at the very least the severe sanction of them within western borders,” Paladino said on X in a Sunda…
https://queenseagle.com/all/2025/12/15/paladino-faces-censur…
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web search NEUTRAL — Another of her tweets from December called for the “expulsion of Muslims from western nations, or at the very least the severe sanction of them within western borders” after a pair of Islamic extremis…
https://nypost.com/2026/03/08/us-news/nyc-pol-vickie-paladin…
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“Queens Democratic Councilwoman Sandra Ung, chair of the ethics panel, confirmed that the council dropped its disciplinary case against Paladino.”
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The provided evidence confirms the disciplinary case was dropped and that Sandra Ung is the chair of the ethics panel, but the specific confirmation by Ung as the source of the announcement is only in the primary claim context.
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web search NEUTRAL — Vickie Albrizio Paladino is an American politician from the state of New York. Paladino is a member of the New York City Council for the 19th district, a northeast Queens district that includes Colleg…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickie_Paladino
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web search NEUTRAL — Republican Councilmember Vickie Paladino shot back at the City Council and threatened a lawsuit after she was charged by the City Council ethics committee for her Islamophobic comments. File photo by …
https://queenseagle.com/all/2026/3/6/paladino-shoots-back-af…
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web search NEUTRAL — New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin gave all of her opponents in the speaker’s race committee chair positions. Crystal Hudson, widely seen as Menin’s biggest competition in the speaker’s race, w…
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/01/terms-new-yo…
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“Attorney Jim Walden represented Paladino.”
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Multiple independent sources (Queens Daily Eagle, NY1) explicitly name Jim Walden as the attorney representing Vickie Paladino in the lawsuit.
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web search NEUTRAL — The 28-page suit was filed Monday in Manhattan by Paladino and her attorney, Jim Walden, who unsuccessfully ran for mayor last year as an independent. The suit asks a judge to order the Council to hal…
https://queenseagle.com/all/2026/3/9/paladino-sues-council-o…
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web search NEUTRAL — In response, Paladino is suing the City Council, enlisting the help of lawyer Jim Walden, who is a former candidate for mayor, to stop an upcoming ethics hearing, claiming the council "cannot ...
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/inside-city-hall/2026/04/01…
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web search NEUTRAL — Amid ethics probe over Islamophobic tweets, Vickie Paladino is likely suing too early, experts say She's arguing her posts are protected from council discipline by the First Amendment, but, as one leg…
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/03/amid-ethics-…
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