The CDC has no power to enforce moratorium on evictions. The SCOTUS ruled congress would have to make a law. Even forgetful Joe says scholars can’t support the CDC. The banks still want paid but landlords can’t collect
problem is, fascist pelosi won’t enact a law and the CDC, who doesn’t have power to make laws, is making defacto laws ILLEGALLY
Opinion by
George F. Will
Columnist
Yesterday at 12:56 p.m. EDT
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The still-unfolding story of the eviction moratorium might yet validate the axiomthat nothing is as permanent as a temporary government program. It certainly demonstrates how the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated a preexisting political ailment — institutional, including constitutional, disarray.
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In March 2020, Congress legislated an eviction moratorium applicable to federally subsidized housing (about 28 percent of multifamily properties) and expiring in July 2020. In September 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an executive branch appendage, suddenly acted as a supplemental legislature. The CDC declared a ban on evictions from any rental housing for nonpayment by individuals making under $99,000 annually or couples making $198,000, who self-certify having suffered pandemic-related financial injury. (In 2020, the median household income was $68,400.) The Biden administration extended the ban three times, through July 31.
Saying that evictions would cause people to move around, perhaps into congested spaces, the CDC located its authority to adopt a housing policy in a lawempowering it to “provide for such inspection, fumigation, disinfection, sanitation, pest extermination, destruction of animals or articles found to be so infected or contaminated as to be sources of dangerous infection to human beings, and other measures.”
FAQ: The eviction moratorium has been extended for many renters, but not for all. Here’s what you need to know.
The most recent of the federal courts that have ruled the eviction ban illegal unanimously held that “other measures” must be something the moratorium is not — measures “similar to” those enumerated in the same sentence. The court, anticipating the Supreme Court, said that Congress must enact “exceedingly clear language” if it wants to dramatically enlarge the government’s power over private property. The court said that under the CDC’s interpretation of its power, it “can do anything it can conceive of to prevent the spread of disease,” even shuttering “entire industries,” exercising “near-dictatorial power for the duration of the pandemic.” Or without a pandemic: seasonal flus kill thousands annually.
problem is, fascist pelosi won’t enact a law and the CDC, who doesn’t have power to make laws, is making defacto laws ILLEGALLY
Opinion by
George F. Will
Columnist
Yesterday at 12:56 p.m. EDT
1.1k
The still-unfolding story of the eviction moratorium might yet validate the axiomthat nothing is as permanent as a temporary government program. It certainly demonstrates how the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated a preexisting political ailment — institutional, including constitutional, disarray.
Support our journalism. Subscribe today.
In March 2020, Congress legislated an eviction moratorium applicable to federally subsidized housing (about 28 percent of multifamily properties) and expiring in July 2020. In September 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an executive branch appendage, suddenly acted as a supplemental legislature. The CDC declared a ban on evictions from any rental housing for nonpayment by individuals making under $99,000 annually or couples making $198,000, who self-certify having suffered pandemic-related financial injury. (In 2020, the median household income was $68,400.) The Biden administration extended the ban three times, through July 31.
Saying that evictions would cause people to move around, perhaps into congested spaces, the CDC located its authority to adopt a housing policy in a lawempowering it to “provide for such inspection, fumigation, disinfection, sanitation, pest extermination, destruction of animals or articles found to be so infected or contaminated as to be sources of dangerous infection to human beings, and other measures.”
FAQ: The eviction moratorium has been extended for many renters, but not for all. Here’s what you need to know.
The most recent of the federal courts that have ruled the eviction ban illegal unanimously held that “other measures” must be something the moratorium is not — measures “similar to” those enumerated in the same sentence. The court, anticipating the Supreme Court, said that Congress must enact “exceedingly clear language” if it wants to dramatically enlarge the government’s power over private property. The court said that under the CDC’s interpretation of its power, it “can do anything it can conceive of to prevent the spread of disease,” even shuttering “entire industries,” exercising “near-dictatorial power for the duration of the pandemic.” Or without a pandemic: seasonal flus kill thousands annually.
