Wednesday News: “Bigoted and Feckless” Muslim Ban SCOTUS “Decision That Will Live in Infamy”; “Joe Crowley’s Loss Is an Earthquake in Democratic Politics”; Trump Dragging Down Comstock?

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, June 27.

• In 5-to-4 Vote, Supreme Court Upholds Trump Travel Ban (A horrendous decision by an illegitimate Supreme Court with a stolen seat.)
• A Decision That Will Live in Infamy (“It will take generations for the Supreme Court to live down its approval of Trump’s travel ban.”)
• Travel ban ruling could embolden Trump on immigration
• The Supreme Court upheld Trump’s travel ban by pretending Trump isn’t the president (“The ruling showed why the Court is so terrible at seeing threats to democracy in real time.”)
• Bigoted and Feckless, the Travel Ban Is Pure Trump (“The conservative justices shrugged off the president’s clear animus toward Muslims.”)
• To many Muslims, ruling feels like end of an American dream (“The high court’s decision added a note of permanence to the sentiment among many Muslim Americans that the government views and treats them differently.”)
• A top House Democrat loses in stunning upset, and Trump extends his winning streak (“The loss of Rep. Joseph Crowley of New York, a top-ranking Democrat and a rising star in the party, to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old activist, sent shock waves through the party less than five months before the midterm elections. Elsewhere, voters in six other states decided the fate of nominees in both parties.”)
• Ocasio-Cortez Upsets Top House Democrat (“Joseph Crowley of New York, who was seen as a possible Democratic House speaker, was defeated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a former campaign organizer for Bernie Sanders. It was the most significant loss for a Democratic incumbent in years and one that will reverberate across the party and the country.”)
• Joe Crowley’s Loss Is an Earthquake in Democratic Politics (“National Democrats aren’t used to this.”)
• 3 winners and 2 losers from the primaries in South Carolina, New York, Utah, and Colorado (“A striking win for the left, and some triumphs for the GOP establishment.”)
• Crowley and Grimm go down: Top takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries
• Political stunner! Crowley knocked off by millennial challenger
• What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Victory Means (“Progressives in the Democratic Party are fired up. As Joe Crowley learned Tuesday night, they can’t be ignored”)
• Immigrant Families Must Be Reunited, Judge Orders (“A federal judge in California issued a nationwide injunction stopping the White House from separating children from their parents at the border. The judge ordered that all families already separated be reunited within 30 days.”)
• John Roberts just validated religious discrimination (“The justices missed the big-picture impact their decision would have on the president’s shaky regard for the rule of law.”)
• Why many religious liberty groups are silent about the Supreme Court’s decision on Trump’s travel ban (Pathetic.)
• Trump Threatens to Tax Harley-Davidson for Production Plans
• Sotomayor’s dissent in the Muslim ban case is absolutely devastating
• McConnell is a fraud(“The Senate Majority Leader once warned about Trump’s Muslim ban. Now he’s gloating about it.”)
• Trump’s knee-jerk authoritarianism is shining through (“Congress should rein in the reflexively threatening president.”)
• Former NAACP president Ben Jealous wins Democratic primary for Maryland governor
• Ben Cardin Wins Maryland Senate Democratic Primary Over Chelsea Manning
• Rick Perry gives pep talk to natural gas industry in wake of damaging climate study (Beyond parody.)
• Trump keeps lying about his border wall (“Gaslight theater.”)
• Republican congressman says he won’t apologize for retweeting a neo-Nazi (“And he won’t delete the tweet.” Kinda shows you where the abominable Steve King is coming from.)
• The Great Facebook Crash (“The social giant is retreating from the news business. It’s been a painful transition for publications that had come to depend on it—including Slate.”)
• Biden: European leaders reeling from Trump’s hostile behavior
• Polls: Dems lead in Arizona and Ohio Senate races, but Florida contest remains tight (“Democrats hold double-digit leads in the U.S. Senate contests in Arizona and Ohio, while it’s much closer in Florida, according to a trio of NBC News/Marist polls from these three key states in November’s midterm elections.”)
• Stocks Drop as Global Sell-Off Resumes; Bonds Gain: Markets Wrap
• House Republicans Still Stuck on Doomed Immigration Bill
• Here Is One Way Trump Spreads False Information Online (“The president tweeted something untrue about Representative Maxine Waters. Outrage ensued online, but that only helped spread disinformation.”)
• CNN bemoans a lack of civility after spending years hiring pro-Trump commentators (Yep, cable “news” networks like CNN helped fuel the rise of Trump – and “incivility” – no doubt about it.)
• Anthony Kennedy Is Not the Supreme Court’s Swing Justice Anymore (“There have been 17 5-4 decisions this term. Kennedy has sided with the conservatives in all of them.”)
• Virginia judge rules against Paul Manafort, will let fraud case continue
• The Supreme Court’s Muslim Ban Ruling Signals the End of Our Modern Reconstruction (“And we’re getting the new Gilded Age simultaneously.”)
• Bracing For a Supreme Court Retirement Bombshell (“If Anthony Kennedy or Clarence Thomas announce they’re stepping down, there could be huge political ramifications.”)
• U.S. cruises toward record-breaking debt on Trump’s watch
• You Gotta Call a Lie a Lie (“The New York Times ties itself into knots to explain when it labels Trump’s falsehoods a lie.”)
• It’s Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Now (“Upholding the travel ban shows justices won’t rein him in.” There goes another check in our system of checks and balances.)
• Trump effect: Most Republicans think news outlets report fake news
• Jim Webb slams governors who pulled National Guard troops from border over family separations (Yikes, what ever happened to Webb? Completely off the far-right deep end, it seems.)
• Sen. Tim Kaine leads Corey Stewart by 18 points in Virginia Senate race’s first poll
• It’s about time Virginia got its slice of the internet tax pie
• Trump’s unpopularity is threatening a GOP incumbent in Virginia
• How Trump is affecting Rep. Comstock’s re-election bid
• Court strikes down Virginia House districts as racial gerrymandering
• Federal court rules against Va. House in racial gerrymandering case, orders new districting plan by Oct. 30
• ‘Unconstitutional’ district ruling could affect voting districts in Newport News, other areas
• Northam grants up to 8 weeks parental leave to state workers, plans study of child care options
• Schapiro: A half-century ago, a lesson for modern Virginia
• Outside the Red Hen, fire and ire on social media come to life
• The Red Hen owner resigns as executive director of Main Street Lexington
• Former Virginia Tech student David Eisenhauer gets 50 years in 13-year-old Nicole Lovell’s slaying (Truly evil.)
• Protesters gather outside The Red Hen in Lexington; one arrested after throwing chicken manure
• Editorial: Do we really want more Red Hens? (More hand wringing from the corporate media.)
• Newport News shipyard’s workforce expanding to 25,000
• Virginia Church Sanctuary Vandalized With Racist Slurs (“The vandalism marked the seventh time since May 11 that Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Anandale, Virginia, has been defaced — and this time was the most vile.”)
• More humid today with a few showers; watching weekend heat blast