A Jan. 6 insurrectionist has filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against New York mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani.
In a three-page complaint submitted to the New York federal court on Nov. 3 and read by Complex, Lang alleges that public remarks that Mamdani made in 2023, involving efforts to increase property taxes on higher-value real estate areas, are in violation of equal protection principles and interfere with New York’s constitutional requirement for uniform taxation.
Lang’s filing requests for the court to declare that New York tax policy has to remain race-neutral “in purpose and effect” and to prevent the reinforcement of any “racially characterized tax scheme.”
Earlier this year, Lang was pardoned on the first day of Donald Trump’s second term. He had spent four years in prison for his alleged involvement in the Capitol Hill riot of Jan. 6, 2021 — but he was never convicted for any offenses.
In March, Lang announced that he was running for the US Senate in Florida to take over the vacated seat by Marco Rubio. “WE ARE TAKING OVER THE CAPITOL AGAIN,” wrote Lang on X.
“I’m running, really, as a kind of a symbol of resilience and the American spirit of perseverance, and more importantly than anything, of those things as a testimony to what faith can do to turn a dead situation and make it alive again, just as God had done for his own son, Jesus Christ, in the tomb,” said Lang to The Guardian.
Though Lang is from New York, he revealed why he chose to run in Florida in a conversation with the Miami New Times. “They love the Jan Sixers,” he said, before adding that Florida is “the most Maga state in the country. The patriotic fervor and love for America is stronger here than any other state.”
On his campaign website, Lang noted that if elected, he’d have a “100% TRUMP AMERICA AGENDA” that includes mass deportation, large tax cuts, and sealing the country’s border.