WATCH: Attorney tells Tucker Carlson about lawsuit against New York Mayor de Blasio's vaccine mandate

Louis Gelormino, who represented Staten Island bar owner Danny Presti after he refused to shut down under former Governor Andrew Cuomo's lockdown orders, is back at it representing restaurant and bar owners in New York City.

He's taken up a lawsuit against New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's vaccine mandates. The mandate says that only those who can prove they've been fully vaccinated are eligible to dine out in restaurants, attend sporting events, and countless other public events. These people will also have to show photo ID to gain entry.

Gelormino spoke to Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Thursday about his efforts to get this mandate reversed, for the good of his clients and the good of New York City. Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis announced the suit, which she backs, on August 6.

"In the city of New York," Carlson said, "no one is allowed indoors anywhere unless they're vaccinated and to have their papers to prove it."

"The city's Mayor Bill de Blasio, who is probably the unhealthiest leader in any city in America, a man who literally lives on marijuana and Cheetos, has decided he knows better than doctors. So doctors can't go to restaurants unless they've been vaccinated. Like he knows better than they do. He's threatened to punish any business that refuses to comply with this arbitrary and insane mandate."

Deblasio said earlier this week, "As to the penalties... restaurants and indoor entertainment, fitness, to educate for a month, get everyone clear about what they need to do and...  if we get non-compliance after that much education and that much of a grace period...  we won't hesitate to give penalties, but we certainly hope to not have to do that often. A first offense, for example, is a thousand dollars. A second offense is 2000. I think a third is 5,000. We'll get you all the details, but it's an escalator approach to make clear that people have to conform with the law."

Tucker continued, "Yeah, but people don't get penalized for say looting Macy's or spray painting the 'f-word' on the side of public buildings or defecating on the sidewalk. The city falls apart, but physicians who have decided not to get vaccinated are penalized by Dr. Bill de Blasio. Mass noncompliance anyone?"

"This is illegal obviously, and now some restaurants in New York city are suing over the mandate."  

Louis Gelormino, the lawyer representing the restaurants, joined the segment and said, "My partner and I, Mark Fond... as you know, Tucker, we've been in the forefront of this fight from the beginning from two years ago... my partner and I are criminal defense attorneys. We really don't want to be doing this. This isn't our wheelhouse. When we got recruited, obviously, I liked to eat. We got recruited by the restaurant owners here in Staten island, in New York City, to go to bat for them. We just brought a lawsuit yesterday trying to get a permanent injunction against these mandates. They're unconstitutional... and they're doing it anyway."

Carlson replied, "What do you do with a political leader, a politician who decides to ignore the law? Their job is to uphold the law. They're ignoring the law. Why are the rest of us obeying the law again?"

Gelormino answered, "Tucker, it's unbelievable how the Mayor of this city continues to punish the restaurants and the gym owners and the small business owners and blame them for the whole COVID virus. We can go through the numbers, you do at constantly, 75 percent of the spread is at home... less than one and a half percent of the spread is at a restaurant."

"You know, this mandate, these edicts, these decrees, these have been going on... almost two straight years. We're ruling New York City and New York state by the decree. It's insane. It violates all kinds of cases, situational issues from privacy to HIPA, to equal protection, even possible violations of the Interstate Commerce Clause. It it's insanity. And, like I said, we're trying to battle it. We hope that we're going to be successful. I think we're going to be heard September 3rd in Staten Island."

Gelormino added, "You know, what makes you really laugh though? Is the Mayor last night got on and said that his legal department said they were on 'sound legal footing.' Never before in the history of America, have employers been told to fire employees that want to work. Never before in the history of America have employers, small business owners, been told to check papers at the door before they can seat people. And never before in American history has American citizens been told to show their healthcare papers before they can eat. And they say that it's on sound legal footing. It's laughable."

Carlson responded, "They wouldn't know the law if it got in the shower with them. I noticed that you're from Staten Island, where all the hipsters in Brooklyn? all the counter-culture types, all the artists are giving the finger to the man…. they're like little conformists, the lemmings. They're just like little soldiers doing the bidding of those in power. They're disgusting. And I'm so glad you're standing up against them."