As Goes New York: Primary votes in seven states yesterday resulted in a shocker in New York where 28-year-old political rookie Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat 10-term Democratic Rep. Joseph Crowley, who was considered a candidate for Speaker of the House if the Democrats win the majority this fall. She crushed him with 57 percent of the vote.

Her win is a stunning upset for the Democrats just months from the mid-term elections. Until last November, Ocasio-Cortez was a bartender.

A member of the Democratic Socialists of America, Ocasio-Cortez turned Crowley’s establishment status against him. She ran on her youth, being a woman of color, and an unabashed liberal. She told The NY Times in a recent interview, “What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted and they just assume that we’re going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are.”

Get it Together: A federal judge in California has ordered the government to re-unite immigrant families within 30 days.  US District Judge Dana Sabraw wrote in a blistering decision, “The unfortunate reality is that under the present system migrant children are not accounted for with the same efficiency and accuracy as property. Certainly, that cannot satisfy the requirements of due process.”

Muslim Ban Approved: Giving the President a big win and firm control over immigration policy, the Supreme Court yesterday upheld Trump’s ban on travel from five mostly-Muslim countries as well as North Korea and Venezuela.

President Trump called it “a tremendous victory for this country, and the Constitution.”

In the 5-4 vote split between the Court’s conservative and liberal members, the decision said the President’s inflammatory comments about Muslims does not undermine the legitimacy of his decision to ban travel from certain countries. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. said Trump has statutory authority to make national security judgments about immigration. He said, “We must consider not only the statements of a particular President, but also the authority of the Presidency itself.”

A NY Times editorial says Trump’s motives are clearly based in intolerance for the Muslim faith. “All this looks a lot like a government official acting on religious animus, which is barred by the First Amendment and which, one would think, would especially offend the conservative justices,” the editorial says.

For the minority, Justice Sonya Sotomayor equated Trump’s ban with putting Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II. With some irony, the Court in the same decision overturned the 1944 decision that justified the internments.

Freedom from Speech: Also in a victory for the anti-abortion movement, the Supreme Court ruled that the State of California may not require pregnancy crisis centers to inform their clients about the availability of abortion. The centers are dedicated to steering women away from abortion.

Writing for the conservative majority, again in a 5-4 decision, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the First Amendment protects the clinic from telling clients something they don’t believe in. “Licensed clinics must provide a government-drafted script about the availability of state-sponsored services, as well as contact information for how to obtain them,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote. “One of those services is abortion — the very practice that petitioners are devoted to opposing.”

Vroom, Vroom!: President Trump threatened to tax the Harley-Davidson motorcycle company if it starts making bikes overseas to avoid a 31 percent European tariff. Trump wrote on Twitter, “If they move, watch, it will be the beginning of the end — they surrendered, they quit!” he wrote. “The Aura will be gone and they will be taxed like never before!”

Can the President levy taxes on a company as punishment? No, he can’t.

Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse said, “The problem isn’t that Harley is unpatriotic — it’s that tariffs are stupid.”

Congressional Caning: Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has sued the next-door neighbor who attacked him last year, breaking several of the senator’s ribs. The suit was filed just a week after retired Dr. Rene Boucher was sent to prison for 30 days for attacking a member of Congress. Boucher had become irritated tafter Paul routinely stacked brush near his property line. One day he ran over and tackled Paul while he was riding his lawn tractor.

Nation: Five people were injured last night when a tornado ripped through Eureka, Kansas, about 65 miles east of Wichita. — A body was found in the New Jersey home of Giants cornerback Janoris Jenkins. Jenkins was out of state when the body was discovered in his basement. The dead man has been identified as Roosevelt Rene, 25, who is reported to be a family friend living in Jenkins’ home. The death has been ruled a homicide, but obviously there’s a story here.

The Obit Page: Former disc jockey Dan Ingram, a fixture in New York’s top 40 radio for more than 40 years, died choking on a piece of steak in his Florida home. He was 83. He had Parkinson’s Disease.

Ingram was at the top before FM radio cut into the music market. From Motown to the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, the Mamas and the Papas, and more, he spun the discs with irreverent humor when there were still discs to spin.

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