The Centers for Disease Control, at the behest of President Joe Biden, has issued a new eviction moratorium to help keep people in their homes as the Delta variant spreads across the country. The order will almost certainly be struck down by the conservative-controlled Supreme Court. In a ruling on the previous moratorium in June, alleged attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh indicated that the CDC wildly overstepped its statutory authority by issuing a ban on evictions. Kavanaugh provided a fifth vote to uphold the old moratorium, but only because it was set to expire soon, and he wanted to give Congress time to pass a law allowing it to freeze evictions during a public health crisis.
Congress, predictably, did not act. We can thank moderate Democrats for refusing to do anything to stop a new wave of homelessness, despite the desperate pleas of their progressive colleagues. Representative Cori Bush literally camped out on the steps of the Capitol for three days to highlight the plight of the soon-to-be homeless, but moderates are apparently more worried about being kicked out of a job than about their constituents’ being kicked out of their homes.
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