New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday defended his decision to rescind a dozen executive orders issued by his predecessor, Eric Adams, made following a 2024 federal indictment of illegal campaign contributions.
The orders, revoked Thursday, included a directive allowing federal agents, including immigration officers, to use an office on Rikers Island, the city’s primary jail. The directive was later shot down by a court.
Other revoked actions, which Adams said tackled anti-Semitism, prohibited city institutions from divesting from Israel and adopted a definition of antisemitism aligned with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), an intergovernmental group promoting Holocaust education….