President Biden extended the CDC's illegal moratorium on tenant evictions — while tacitly admitting that the order is unconstitutional

© 2021 Peter Free

 

05 August 2021

 

 

So much for Joe Biden's presidential oath to uphold the Constitution

 

The Centers for Disease Control has extended its illegal ban on tenant evictions around the country for 60 days.

 

That's despite the fact that everyone in possession of a legal mind knows the CDC never had the authority to issue the ban in the first place.

 

Blatantly contributing to this renewed Government wrongdoing is President Biden's tacit admission that the CDC ban was (and continues to be) illegal:

 

 

“I have been informed [the CDC is] about to make a judgment as to potential other options.

 

Whether that option will pass constitutional measure with this administration, I can’t tell you. I don’t know,” Biden said.

 

“The bulk of the constitutional scholarship says that it’s not likely to pass constitutional muster. … But there are several key scholars who think that it may and it’s worth the effort.”

 

© 2021 Jeff Stein, Tyler Pager, Seung Min Kim and Tony Romm, Biden administration moves to block evictions in most of U.S. following liberal backlash, Washington Post (05 August 2021)

 

 

Biden, in evidently happy accord with his recent predecessors, thus ignores his Constitution-based oath of office.

 

Knowingly indulging Government-sponsored illegality, he essentially indicates, is "worth the effort".

 

 

Once again, the United States rolls its irresponsible effluent downhill . . .

 

. . . to rest on the shoulders of more or less ordinary Americans:

 

 

While intended to stave off evictions, the measure could also drive thousands of minor landlords to bankruptcy.

 

Patrick Newton, spokesman for the National Association of Realtors, said roughly half of all housing providers are “mom and pop operations” that could be jeopardized by the disappearance of tenant payments.

 

“Without rental income, they cannot pay their own bills or maintain their properties,” Newton said.

 

© 2021 Jeff Stein, Tyler Pager, Seung Min Kim and Tony Romm, Biden administration moves to block evictions in most of U.S. following liberal backlash, Washington Post (05 August 2021)

 

 

In short

 

Rather than directly and competently dealing with COVID-19's extended economic effects, we get the CDC's intentional targeting of non-Oligarchic landlords as a purported panacea to a predictable problem.

 

 

The moral? — So much for oaths of office

 

Including those of the US Supreme Court, which dodged the CDC eviction ban issue (in the Court's now characteristic cowardly way) in late June.

 

Why average Americans would pay placidly obedient attention to Authorities' commands — at this advanced stage in the nation's abject disintegration — eludes Liberty's understanding.